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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [262r] (99/308)
The record is made up of 1 item (154 folios). It was created in 26 Dec 1915-12 Dec 1916. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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that on account cf what the Turks perpetrated at Anal! anti
against the townsmen of Medina,the Hark (Beni Salim) and
the A1 F ah cl ah, wh o had previously sided with the Turks came
to an understanding with the Masruh who are co-oneratinc;
with the sons of the Sherif,and all of them joined forces
and became one. They ambushed the Turks and cut their
coromunications in and out of Medina,on account of the Turks
brutal proceedings. My informant also alleges that the Hark
sent to the sons of the Sherif asking them to advance
towards Medina and the surrounding places with a view to
cutting communications with the town and destroying the
Railway.This is the news which reaches
God knows whether it is true. Insallah
when it is confirmed.According to what
me while writing,but
,1 shall inform you
we learn about the
doings of the Turks,their oppression and tyranny of any one
who comes ±hx£ within their reach is such thet it is clear
and certain that they will never set their affairs aright
and will never succeed.
Then Your Honour spoke to me regarding Bin Rashid.
I have just heard news of his arrival at his dwelling place
Hail. Thank God he is certainly in evil plight.kith
reference to your hone that you would hear soon about the
doings of my men in that direction,! have explained to Your
Honour in my previous letter^the nrimary difficulty.Now I
beg to inform you that the difficulty in the way of
attacking Bin Rashid in the neighbourhood of Hail at nresent
is not due to any strength in him which prevents it,nor to
any weakness in me or my forces,but it arises from political
reasons which make it hx inexpedient to force hostilities on
them (sic) at present.But whether it be a question of
fighting with Bin Rashid or other Arabs in enmity with the
British Government or of co-operation and assistance to
people like the Sherif (problems concerning us in our
dealings
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Part 5 concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and, to a lesser extent, Britain's relations with the Grand Sherif [Sharif] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]. It includes the following:
- a copy of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, dated 26 December 1915, plus a copy of the ratified treaty, dated 18 July 1918;
- reports of an agreement between Bin Saud and Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
- details of munitions that are to be given by the British to Bin Saud;
- translated copies of correspondence between the High Commissioner, Cairo, and the Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- discussion as to whether the British should press Bin Saud to take specific action to assist both the British and the recently deposed Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- details of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's meetings with Bin Saud.
The principal correspondents are the following:
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (as both 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. and Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force D);
- Bin Saud;
- Viceroy of India [Charles Hardinge, succeeded by Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain];
- High Commissioner, Cairo (Sir Arthur Henry McMahon);
- Grand Sherif of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī];
- Foreign Office;
- Secretary to the 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. 's Political Department (Arthur Hirtzel).
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- File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud'
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- 213r:331v, 333r:362v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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