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File 2182/1913 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Policy towards Bin Saud (Capt. Shakespear's Mission)' [59r] (114/426)
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practically held myself responsible in the past for pressing the Pir’s “ izzat,”
so far as a police officer can, I am not anxious that he should be worried by
Talib Bey.
And taking a survey of the whole situation I do not think it would be a
bad plan to give Talib Bey marching orders for Madras, and let him live there.
Now as regards Sheikh Salim A1 Khayyum, our impression is that he is a
hot-headed child of the jungle. He is absolutely and strictly orthodox, praying
five times a day, and is apparently perfectly content to live quietly! As an
Arab he is, I believe, straight. In the hearing of a third party (not a police
officer) yesterday he forbade Sheikh Abdul Rahiman to discuss the war or Gulf
affairs with him. He has never seen a motor-car, nor a train, nor electric light
and fans ; and I consider that we have a very good chance, if he is allowed & to
stay here, of completely exercising by friendly treatment any bitterness that
may be rankling in his mind against us. I should like to try the experiment,
and I propose to begin by inviting him to my bungalow on Sunday for an
interview. He has left the house of Inspector Khan Saheb P. M. Taki,
and we have taken suitable quarters for him in Paiz Manzil, Grant
Road, one floor of which is occupied by a Criminal Investigation Depart
ment Sub-Inspector, Sheikh Bahauddin, who is a collateral relative of
the Chief of Mangrol. He and Inspector Taki will be responsible for
A1 Khayyum’s education, and aided by local Mahommedans, who are well
affected towards Government, will, I believe, be able eventually to instil
into A1 Khayyum’s mind a clear appreciation of the value of British Rule.
He is not, so far as we can tell now, likely to be in the least troublesome, and I
certainly think we shall be able to make more of him, if he is left in our charge
than if he is exiled to the Deccan and placed under the formal surveillance of
the District Police.
There is some grounds for thinking that it was on a report or information
supplied by Talib Bey that Sheikh Salim was carried off by the Gulf authorities
and sent down here ; and considering Talib Bey’s past history and the reputation
that he has among the Arabs and the Jews of Basrah, that report may well have
been exaggerated, if not wholly false. Anyhow the pair are at|daggers drawn—
the only difference beicg that Sheikh Salim refuses to slander Talib Bey behind
his back.
I would therefore suggest that the Sheikh may at any rate for the present
be left to us and we will try and make a pro-English Arab of him.
I should he glad to see the last of Talib Bey, and so also would the Pir of
Baghdad.
• Telegram P., dated the 16th February 1915.
From - His Excellency the Viceroy (Foreign and Political Department), Delhi,
To—His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, London.
Bin Sand. A letter dated the 3rd Pebruary has been received from Bin
Saud by the Sheikh of Zubair in which he states that Bin Rashid was defeated
by him.
MEMORANDUM.
The papers specified in the margin were transmitted to the Secretary,
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
. Political Department,
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
,
London, for the information of His
Majesty’s Secretary of State for India,
under cover of the Poreign Secretary’s
letter No. 7-M., dated the Hth Pebruary 1915.
Negotiations with Bin Saud and Sayyid Talib.
Serial Nos. 64—74.
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Part 4 primarily concerns British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], following the outbreak of the First World War. It includes the following:
- discussion regarding Bin Saud's relations with the Ottoman government, and the need for the British to secure Bin Saud's goodwill, especially in the event of the Ottoman government entering the war on the German side;
- details of Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear's mission (as a political officer on special duty) to meet with Bin Saud, with the aim of ensuring that, in the event of hostilities between Britain and the Ottomans, no assistance is offered to the latter by Bin Saud;
- translated copies of letters from Shaikh Mubarak [Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Kuwait, to Bin Saud, urging the latter to side with the British Government;
- details of a proposed preliminary treaty between the British and Bin Saud;
- reports of Captain Shakespear's death;
- reports on Bin Saud's military engagements against Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
- a copy of a draft of a preliminary treaty between the British government and Bin Saud;
- details of proposed gifts from the British to Bin Saud of arms and ammunition captured from the Ottomans, plus a £20,000 loan.
The principal correspondents are the following:
- Secretary of State for India [Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe];
- Viceroy of India [Charles Hardinge];
- Foreign Office;
- India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. ;
- War Office;
- Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India, Thomas William Holderness;
- Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox;
- Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait (Lieutenant-Colonel William George Grey);
- Secretary to the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department [Alfred Hamilton Grant];
- Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart George Knox (on special duty in the absence of the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. );
- Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear;
- Bin Saud.
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