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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [339r] (253/308)
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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allowed to cone to Kuwait or obtain supplies and as they
plundered sone Kuwait Canels cT'd Kuwait Territory an a,dc.i“
tional source of en^nity arose.
In May 1916 they asked and obtained the acquiescence
of the Shaikh of Zubair to settle at Safwan. But when in
the following month, Ibn Rashid summoned then to come to
his aid against Hfcnud ibn Suwait and Dhari ibn TawSlah,
some iknxMM 300 of them responded and left without
giving notice to Shaikh Ibrahim of Zubair. The day after
their departure they sent him a verbal message saying that
their intentions were not hostile to the British. This
action and communication he justly considered to be un-
reasonable.
Shaikh Dhaidan is still with Ibn Rashid (July 2l)
but lack of provisions has caused most of the 'Ajnan to
returns to Safv/an.
The members of the tribe who took refuge at kawait
after being defeated and routed by Bin Saud m September
1915, belonged to the following eleven main Sections:
A1 Hitman
Al Ma'fdh
A1 Suledman
Al Dhain
Al Misra <
Al Sifran
Al MahfudhM
In all they numbered just over 2000 fighting men.
(ii) When they were expelled from Kuwait only about
§-of the above went north i.e. about 1400. These were
composed of all the 7 divisions. The remainder apja rently
split
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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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