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File 3665/1924 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- situation 1924. H.M.Govt’s policy of complete neutrality regarding the future of the Holy Cities. Question of the recruitment of troops in the Aden Protectorate on behalf of the Emir Ali.’ [48r] (89/117)
The record is made up of 1 item (57 folios). It was created in 15 Oct 1924-26 May 1925. 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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Deied $inila a 16th October 4< 1924,.
Received l?th October,, 1924.
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.agatioru In lett
>i Khilafat Cocci t
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of the 24th ultimo, 2723c Khilafat
of October 5th, Secretary to the Can
oo'-mnnioatea resolution passod b/ the Cocrcitt
October, gist of which is as follows. Begins. Having
considered the straggle noir proceed!r»p* in Hedisr and state
j Mi. is er K egardjing r-ritish ^nterrezitlon
the CoMnaittee is emphatically of opinion that in nc case can
Britieh or non-Moslem intervention be tolerated by
ssu'maiis "either the interests of British subjects in
.a * *1 • y c*t p .Igrims is of e^ual importance with
dv&i u i the u.c ~ J a " from non^Moalea intervention of aiy
or under ary pretext. Cosrnittee consider it their duty
jionmos that tne Moslems or India will do everything to
prevent non Mos -1 am intervention, and desire that it should be
understood that ary attempt at such intervention is bound to
be regarded as an act of hostility towards Islam. Committee
therefore warn British Government to desist from anything
ro«amb such intervention. Bncfe l-
Letter goes on to uige the Government of India to use
of '.iC to d isoade une British Government from atto^pt
liig any intersont 5 on s and asks for a declaration by the
Briuisn Government that it will leave the affairs of the
^ ^ 1 .isive right of Mussulmans to interfere in
t) c Holy Lands, and that the reconciliation of
contend)ng
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Correspondence concerning the British Government’s policy of neutrality in response to the invasion of the Hejaz by Wahabi [Wahhabi] troops under the rule of the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The correspondence covers: responses to the invasion by the Muslim League of Bombay [Mumbai], the Khalifat Committee and its leader, Maulana Shaukat Ali, and the President of the Supreme Religious Court in Egypt; the question of the fate of Islam’s holy cities; reports of attempts by the King of Hejaz, ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, to recruit troops in the Aden Protectorate; the British Government’s disapproval of King Ali’s attempts to recruit troops in a British territory; the enlistment of Palestinians, Trans Jordanians and Egyptians in to the Hejaz army.
The principal correspondents are: the Home Department of the Government of India; the Foreign Office; the British Consul at Jeddah, Reader William Bullard.
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