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NOTES BY PH .SID .M OF CGNTI^KCE M-KETINGS.
' FOURTEENTH SESSION
On the 25th of March was held the 14th Session of the
Conference. The President and Secretary were present,and on
behalf of Nejd Dr.Abdulla Damluji the President of the Nejd
delegation with Mulla Hafidh and Saiyid H^shim as members.'irans
Jordania was represented by Ebrahim Hashim (Minister of Education)
and All Khulqi Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. . Trans Jordania was asked to open the
discussion and did so by presenting their old claim for the
boundary commencing from Madain Salih and enclosing Taimah and
thhnce Jauf and Sakaka on Trans Jordanian side and running up to
the meeting place Jabal Anaizali where Iraq and Nejd boundaries also
meet.
At this point, the Nejd President was called on to reply.
He repeated the well known historical arguments, with which we are
familiar,on the Nejd claim to Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirhan and laid stress on the
fact that the population of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirhan was by nature and
habits .Bedouin and more homogeneous with the population of Nejd
than with that of Syria. He concluded by saying that the Multan
of Nejd will be satisfied with nothing else then the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirhan
including Kaf.
To this both Trans Jordanian envoys replied,one succeeding
the other. They also brought forward historical arguments to show
that Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirhan belongs to Syria, that the Turks during the war
had a Q,aim Muqam in Jauf and also exercised suzerainty over the
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirhan and that the Bedouin tribes there had paid "Zikat*
to the Turks. That Syria had also its Bedouins,that Nuri ash
Sha’alan had been in constant feud with Bin Rashid,when the latter
attempted to exercise authority in Jauf. Nuri ash Sha’alan was a
Syrian,acknowledged Turkish Suzerainty and such rights, as he
pretended to in Jauf, were held of the Turks. Trans Jordania
as heir of the Turks in Southern Syria succeeded to all rights
pertaining to that territory. That the population of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirhan
wm, f-:i,r closer akin to the population ol Syria Ahan it was to t at
of Nejd; thate was the natural boundary to the Nafud between Jauf