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Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–' [133r] (266/802)
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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
EASTERN (Arabia).
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December 23, 1935.
_ CONFIDENTIAL.
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Section 2.
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Mr. Calvert to Sir Samuel Hoare.—(Received December 23.)
(Mo. 346. Confidential.)
Sir, Jedda. December 1, 1935.
1 HAVE the honour to submit herewith the Jedda report for November 1935-
2. Copies have been distributed as in the case of the report for August 1935.
I have. &c.
A. S. CALVERT.
Enclosure.
Jedda Report, November 1935.
I .—Internal Affairs.
356. Riyadh has been the setting for the most interesting event of the month.
I bn Saud, who had been hunting early in November at Rumah, Mawahiya and
the Dahna, received as his guest on the 23rd November Sir Andrew Ryan, who
remained in the Nejdi capital until the 28th. His Majesty’s Minister, whose
movements are recorded in greater detail below (paragraph 367), conveyed to
Riyadh and presented to Ibn Saud the robes and insignia of the G.C.B.,
conferred by His Majesty King George.
357. Amir Feisal remained in Riyadh during the month in order to be
present during the visit of Sir Andrew "Ryan. Fuad Bey Hamza, who returned
from abroad on the 4th November by Italian ship, left Mecca for Riyadh on the
17th November, Sheikh Yusuf Yasin. accompanied by Tewfik Hamza (who was
to meet His Majesty’s Minister on his arrival at Uqair in Hasa) having preceded
him by a week or more.
358. During the absence of virtually the entire staff of the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs at Riyadh, the Minister of Finance, Sheikh Abdullah Suleiman,
who himself had visited Riyadh early in the month, was left in charge in Mecca.
359. The death of Ibn Jiluwi, the Amir of Hasa (paragraph 313), evoked
numerous expressions of sympathy. Condolences were expressed by the Legation
on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the Government of India, Sir Andrew
Ryan, 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.
and the Political Agents at
Koweit and Bahrein. No announcement has yet been made as to Ibn Jiluwi’s
successor, although rumour designates either one of the King’s sons or a son of
the late Amir. Sheikh Yusuf Yasin, in conversation with His Majesty’s Charge
d’Affaires early in the month, mentioned the latter possibility.
360. The internal situation calls for little comment. Four new police posts
were established at (a) the junction of the roads between Ru-al-Kuhl and
A1 Jahum; (b) Qoaz-al-Makasa on the Lith road; (c) Zima; and (d) Kar, for the
purpose of frontier control and the control of illicit arms traffic. No untoward
incidents have been reported during the month. The prices of food-stuffs, which
recently rose considerably as a result of disturbing news of the Italo-Abyssinian
situation, have now returned to normal, it is somewhat prematurely claimed in
the Mecca press, owing to the action taken by the Saudi authorities.
361. (Paragraph 228 of the report for July.) Sheikh Abdur Rauf-as-
Sabban is believed to have returned for a while to Iraq. Meanwhile, an even
; more notorious anti-Saudi intriguer, Seyyid Muhammad Tahir-ad-Dabbagh, is
reported in the Umm-al-Qura of the 22nd November to have made his peace with
! Ibn Saud, under the amnesty to political offenders of last January.
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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)
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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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