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Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–' [8v] (17/802)
The record is made up of 1 file (399 folios). It was created in 1 Jul 1931-31 Mar 1938. 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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511. It is reported from Bagdad that a number of Indian pilgrims have
arrived there with the idea of going on to Mecca overland either by Nejef and
Hail or, if that route is rendered too bad by rain, by Basra and Riyadh.
512. Wonderful things are told of the hotel at Mecca which has been built
by the Banque Misr. It has, according to the taste of the narrator, 75, 100, 200,
250 rooms. It is certainly large, and affords better accommodation than any th r ‘Tm
exists at present. There is a lift, and a bath-room with hot and cold water 'to
each pair of rooms. It is not understood how the hotel can pay when the season
is so short.
513. A long silence that followed the departure of the Soviet Minister on
leave obviously aroused uneasy speculation in the minds of his staff in Jedda. It
is now learned, however, that he has not joined Messrs. Karakhan and Krestinski,
but merely fell ill on his way home, and is now recuperating in the Caucasus and
“ spitting on the ceiling ”—the Russian equivalent of dolce far niente.
514. A respectable, pious Javanese pilgrim ran amok in Mecca on the
30th December. He attacked several people, walked quietly through the court
yard of the great mosque, and then attacked several more. Fifteen persons were
attacked (none of them British) and four are dead.
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This file consists almost entirely of copies (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) of printed reports sent either by the His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard), or, in the Minister's absence, by His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert), to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Most of the reports cover a two-month period and are prefaced by a table of contents. The reports discuss a number of matters relating to the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), including internal affairs, frontier questions, foreign relations, the Hajj, and slavery.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (399 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 400; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The leather cover wraps around the documents; the back of the cover has not been foliated.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2073
- Title
- Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:47r, 48r, 49r:61r, 62r:89r, 91r:334r, 336r:398v, 400r:400v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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