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Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–' [204r] (408/802)
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[156 c—1]
[E 4334/715/25] No. 1.
Sir A. Ryan to Sir John Simon.—(Received July 3.)
(No. 170. Confidential.) , r ^
Jedda, June 2, 1934.
’ I HAVE the honour to submit herewith the Jedda report for May 1934.
2. Copies have been distributed as in the list appended to the report for
January.
I have, &c.
PVAN
Enclosure in No. 1.
Jedda Report for May 1934.
I .—Internal Affairs.
96. IBN SAUD moved into summer quarters at Taif on the lst-2nd May
and has since remained there. His two eldest sons remained in their commands
in the south. Fuad Bey Hamza continued to be Acting Minister for Foreign
Affairs in the Amir Feisal's absence, but was indisposed for a time, with the
result that Sheikh Yusuf Yasin came to Jedda in his stead on the 25th May.
97. No important internal events were reported. The following are the only
important economic items :—
(a) The 2 million rounds of ammunition bought by the Saudi Government
from Gellatly, Hankey and Co. (Sudan) (Limited) arrived in the
Strick steamship Gorjistan on the 18th May (paragraph 48 (c) of
March report) and were sent up to Mecca. Payment was completed
next day.
(b) About the same time Gellatly, Hankey and Co. (Sudan) (Limited) secured
for Shell the contract for supplying benzine and petroleum to the
Government up to next March (paragraph 71 (d) of last report). This
disposes for the time being of Mr. Philby’s efforts to get a general
monopoly of import for Sharqieh (Limited). Payment for the
Government supplies is to be made by remission of future customs
duty.
(c) The press announced on the 5th May the formation of an “Arabian
Steam Navigation Company ” to trade in the Red Sea and the Persian
Gulf. It is in theory a private trading concern, but it has strong
Government support, the manager being the permanent Under
secretary in the Finance Ministry, and many prominent official
personages having taken shares. The Government have, moreover,
guaranteed the company against loss. The promoters recently bought
two small vessels in Beirut, formerly under the French flag. One,
renamed El Fath, arrived in Jedda on the 21st May, and sailed for
Qunfidha and Jizan on the 23rd May.
II.—Frontier Questions and Foreign Relations in Arabia.
98. The fall of Medi on the 26th April was followed by a rapid Saudi
advance along the Yemen littoral. Luhayya offered no resistance, and was
occupied on the 1st May. Hodeida might have presented more difficulty, but the
Yemeni civil administration and military forces abandoned it on the 29th-
30th April, leaving it without any Government except that of certain local
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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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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.
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