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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [281r] (137/308)
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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and
(rl) With regard to ny rein.tire Xlm AMtilim Al ThttR-^iyim
I note that yen have, soon after the ^oeeirt of ray
neist fer^ him, and that he cam* to yon* I no to also -that yon
h;we found nothing in hi?? to tirofro hlsf guilty, hut hove
arranged for his dfroarttire for Masqat ^hore he ttas to he infer
clctontion until you heard from no and learnt what my wtahen
rrar© aa to hla fntu.ro diapcaal • As X told yon previously .c
had formerly tmatad him hut ho gave no no intlmtlon
his donarturo# and told no nothing until ultimately lie vrr?vte
to n© a letter uhich I seat to you together f 1th the Treaty*
fils having thus left without reason tir^l without any warning
caused *ae to sustiect !ite t for* you are aware of tho nature of
the present tine and of the reonle isow-a-days* You are well
aware, toe, that people t\& many tilings wfiich ^ro contrary to
their own interests wml X was afraid tliat he might do things ©f
whidt %m should disafipreve and which you would net consider
Justified ©is the port of one wfm is emmocted with me* 1 ihonr^t
it lust to explain the facts to you so that in the event ©f his
being guilty of any mis eon duet, I escape any oMvm djie
/£S^
to t!n‘ fi ot of Its having reo* ^— m%-*•#£« hy mf) of re n-le,
fe have no fear, nor would any one? fear, that any serious
evil would result to him from his being arrested by Government
in ©cmooction ifi-th his dar^rtum without warning ami without
prudence, for the fact- in that Great rrliatn amt yourself are
noro hind to our people tf?sn we are ourselves in swell matters#
But the truth is that The Tlmtmlym hoe a family in our noi^li-
tj- uiteod. unci they came to uy fat!ser f s houso and hogged him to
ask me to write to Jour Utmemr to nxpiesi you kindly to send him
hack? end my father !ms ©shod mo to do this* If ho returns, 71m
Tlnnmiyan aimll live in r-y father*© house wi.th him, at the
e apt tii 1, Ely ad!? •
X tjeg you therefore’ to send him boric to Bnltreln and to
instruct
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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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