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Coll 6/38 'Saudi-Arabia: Position and National Status of British subjects and protected persons.' [72r] (143/174)
The record is made up of 1 file (85 folios). It was created in 11 Apr 1931-13 Feb 1934. 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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urgent reasons for returning to the Sudan could not do so be
cause he had not had Ms wages. It was agreed that I should
send the Sheikh a list of cases in a personal letter. I sub
sequently delayed this letter, as I heard of one man having
been paid and hoped that others might have the same good for
tune, in which case I should be spared the necessity of draw-
img up a list in which holes could be picked. It was also
brought to ay notice that certain chauffeurs had been warned
against appealing to the Legation. One has always to reckon
with the danger of exposing applicants and possible applicants
for assistance to further oppression, rather than doing them
good, if one takes up cases too often or too strongly in the
deplorable conditions of this country.
4 # Tae matter took, a new and more serious turn,, how
ever, on March 27th, when a report was widely circulated that
certain chauffeurs of various nationalities in Mecca, who had
demanded their arrears of pay and threatened to go on strike
if they did not get them, had been imprisoned and in some cases
severely beaten in public. There have been various versions of
this incident but the reports that reached me loft ho doubt
that the men had been most harshly treated and that they had
boon so treated under the order® of the higuest authorities^
5 # This compelled me to consider the situation very
carefully* I have tried to avoid fresh causes Mli of quarrel
with the Hejasi Government pending the liquidation of the Trans*
Jordan frontier question and I am anxious that the atmosphere
for the impending negotiations between the Iraqi Prime Minister
and the Hejasl Government should be as favourable as the state
of the Trans—Jordan question will allow. I was also hampered
by the difficulty of obtaining precise information and of being
sure that the chauffeurs who had been maltreated Included men
whose
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This file, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, relates to the position and national status of British subjects and protected persons residing in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence includes discussion of the following:
- The treatment of foreign chauffeurs employed by the Hejazi Government.
- Details of a proposed census of all male inhabitants of Hejazi towns, and the possible implications for foreign residents.
- Reports that the authorities in Mecca are demanding that foreign residents produce documentary proof of their foreign nationality within fifteen days, with the alternatives being either to adopt Saudi nationality or to leave the country within three months.
- The status in Saudi Arabia of natives of the Hadramaut.
- Reports of British protected persons of African origin being pressured to leave the country within a period of ten days (or in certain cases, to enter military service).
- Reports that British Indian chauffeurs and mechanics working in Saudi Arabia have been informed that they cannot continue working in their occupations unless they adopt Saudi nationality, on the grounds that cars which are engaged for military purposes cannot be driven or maintained by foreigners.
The file features the following correspondents: His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Saudi Arabia (Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd); officials of the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, and the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.
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 (folio 2).
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- 1 file (85 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 87; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-86; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- Coll 6/38 'Saudi-Arabia: Position and National Status of British subjects and protected persons.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:19v, 23r:27v, 30r:38v, 40r:58v, 61r:86v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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