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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [353r] (281/308)
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Telegram No. G.-19P6, dated the 26th January 1916.
From—The General Officer Commanding, Force ee Basrah,
To—The Chief of the General Staff, Delhi.
Your 35022 (35922?) of 26th January. Yes claims fully considered. My
proposal to give Bin Saud two guns was only limited to that number because
I only have two here to give him. I am in consultation with Cox as to
relative desirability of giving captured small arms and ammunition to Qavvam
or to Bin Saud, but I have no captured small arms immediately available just
now.
Addressed Chief Genstaff; repeated General Headquarters and Cox.
isak
{Copy.)
Telegram P., No. 1170-B., dated the 16th (received 17th) March 1916.
From—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.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Delhi.
fRepeated Bushire.)
Munitions for Bin Saud. Please see my 1946-B. and telegraphic cor
respondence.
He asked for 3,000 rifles and the Government proposal was that he should
be given 1,000. On 22nd January Army Commander who only had about
600 available here expressed ability to give him 2 mountain guns and 500
rifles, and Bin Saud was then asked to have party sent here to be trained in
gunnery. Meanwhile Kawam arrived and the 2 guns and 400 rifles reserved
for Bin Saud were given to Kawam owing to urgency of his case.
Two more guns can probably be made serviceable. Meanwhile Bin Saud
asks urgently for an instalment of rifles. Kawam has now left Lingah.
Bifles sent with Sykes will in any case have to go on by instalments as Kawam
is able to arrange for transport. I
I would propose that 1,000 of these rifles and 200,000 rounds be deflected
and sent to Bahrein for Bin Saud, to be replaced later if necessity should
arise. Has this your concurrence ?
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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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- 213r:331v, 333r:362v
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