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Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–' [245r] (490/802)
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).
CONFIDENTIAL.
S [E 7249/902/25]
No. 1.
Mr. Calvert to Sir John Simon.— (Received November '27.)
(No. 326. Confidential.) , , 7 *7 j * i hqq
g- r Jedda, November b, 1933.
I HAVE the honour to submit herewith the Jedda report for October 1933.
2. Copies have been distributed as in the list appended to the report toi
January. T . p
I have, &c.
A. S. CALVERT.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Jedda Report for October, 1933.
I .—Internal Affairs.
208 The Kins has remained in Nejd and Amir Feisal at Taif during
October. The Amir of Jedda, Sheikh Abdul Aziz-bin-Muammar, was still absent
at the end of the month (see paragraphs 167 and 193). The Mmister
Sheikh Abdullah Suleiman, was constantly on the move between Taif, Mecca and
Jedda, chiefly occupied in organising the despatch of troops and stoies to As
(see paragraphs |17 ^ m ^ accompanied t)y lus w if e) returned from abroad on
the 9th October by'Italian steamer. He was met at the landing stage by local
authorities and notables, and, clad in “ Ihram towels only, presented a some
what incongruous figure inspecting (very cursorily) the guard of honour mounted
for the occasion. His Majesty’s Charge d’Affaires was present to welcome him.
The Deputy Minister left the same day for Mecca and three or four days latei
went on*to Riyadh to pay his respects to Ibn Saud. He was expected to return
e ' rl5 210 ^Arriving by the same boat as Fuad Bey Hamza, and indeed a member
of his party, was Khalid-al-Hakim, an ex-Turkish officer of Syrian or Palestinian
ori<Aii whose record may be consulted in this Legation s compilation.
• ' Personalities in Saudi Arabia” (No. 56). It is interesting, in view of press
I reports that Fuad Bey Hamza’s prolonged leave has not been
/with the question of the Hejaz Railway (see paragraph 180), to note that Khalid-
I A Haldm accompanied Dr Damluji in July 1928 to take part in the abortive
| conference at HaHa on this question. He left with Fuad Bey Hamza for Riyadh
Ion the 14th R f paragraph 169.) On the 18th October Mr. W. J. Lenahan,
an official of the Standard Oil Company of California, arrived here and proceeded
to establish himself as the company’s Jedda representative. He has had no
previous experience of this part of the world, having previously been employed
L his company, in an administrative capacity, in South America He recently
stated in conversation, that five geologists of the company had already arrived
in Hasa and were now at work, and that more were expected to arrive there
shortlv Mr. Twitchell is believed to be soon returning to Jeclda
212 (Reference paragraph 110.) Mr. Philby, accompanied by his wife,
arrived from the United Kingdom via Port Sudan on the IStlc His return, it i»
understood, was rather hurried, due to difficulties with the Saudi Government
nvpr SWn’ieh Limited’s motor and tvre concession. , ^ ,
213 (Reference paragraphs 17i and 1721. The National Bank scheme
remains as much as ever a castle in Spain, and the Jedda-Mecca railway project
is still darkly incubating in Madras. One suspects the egg.
[963 dd—1]
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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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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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- front, front-i, 2r:47r, 48r, 49r:61r, 62r:89r, 91r:334r, 336r:398v, 400r:400v, back
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