File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [‎268r] (111/308)

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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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