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Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–' [251r] (502/802)
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).
October 23, 1933.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 2.
■ 4 ? q
[E 6328/902/25] No. 1.
Mr. Calvert to Sir John Simon.—(Received October 23.)
(No. 304. Confidential.)
Sir, Jedda, October 2, 1933.
I HAVE the honour to submit herewith the Jedda report for September 1933.
2. Copies have been distributed as in the list appended to the report for
January.
I have, &c.
A. S. CALVERT.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Jedda Report for September 1933.
I .—Internal Affairs.
193. During the month Ibn Saud remained in Nejd and Amir Feisal at Taif.
The Amir of Jedda, Sheikh Abdul Aziz-bin-Muammar (see paragraph 167), was
absent the whole month, as was Fuad Bey Hamza, whose return from abroad,
however, is predicted for the first week in October. The Minister of Finance,
Sheikh Abdullah Suleiman, carried on in the latter's absence as intermediary
between the Legation and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and visited Jedda twice
during September (see paragraphs 195 and 196).
194. Dr. Moin-ud-Din (see paragraph 168) left for India on the 13th by the
steamship Jehangir. He proposes, whilst in Hyderabad, to buy a further fifty
looms and a quantity of Rangoon teak for spindles for his textile project at
Medina, and hopes to be able to stimulate interest in, raise funds and arrange a
sales organisation in Hyderabad for the “ihrams,” &c., produced. It would
appear that his institution in its present stages is primarily instructional and is
intended to promote home industry.
195. As far as can be gathered, the situation in Asir has changed only in
regard to the concentration of Saudi military forces in the province against the
Yemen. This has proceeded steadily throughout the month. Reports of a conflict
at Salla in the Tihamat Asir between Saudi and Yemeni troops, which appeared
in the Egyptian press as emanating from Aden, and which were repeated in the
Times, were contradicted by Sheikh Abdullah Suleiman in conversation with His
Majesty’s Charge d'Affaires on the 29th. He admitted that a minor disturbance
had occurred some six weeks ago when Saudi troops were used against a small
tribe, whose name he professed to have forgotten, inhabiting a village immediately
south of Jizan, who had refused to pay their taxes. They had been suitably dealt
with and their leaders thrown into prison at Jizan. The general situation will
be further treated below in connexion with relations with the Yemen (see
paragraph 196).
II.— Frontier Questions and Foreign Relations in Arabia.
196. The month opened with relations between Saudi Arabia and the Yemen
(see paragraphs 177-9) hardening and with the promise of hostilities in the air.
On the 7th, the Minister of Finance, at a meeting with His Majesty’s Charge
d'Affaires, declared the situation remained substantially unchanged. His personal
opinion was that the Imam would be allowed to gang his ain gait until Saudi
military dispositions were complete, when he would be confronted with an
ultimatum. On the 11th, over 700 troops (mainly tribesmen) were embarked on the
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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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