File 3665/1924 Pt 4 ‘Arabia:- Nejd-Hedjaz Situation. Attitude of Moslem world. Hedjaz deputation to India. Nejd deputation to India.’ [‎238r] (13/182)

BRITISH AGENCY An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. .
JiJODAH.
December 4th, 1925.
Rly Lord,
V/ith reference to Your Lordship's telegram
No.425 of the 2nd instant, relative to the pending
visit of His Hif^mess the fSultan of Nejd's repre
sentative to Palestine, I have the honour to state
that Hafiz v/ahba is at present with one Yusef Yasin,
a Palestinian, sharing the honour to being Bin
Baud's right hand man.
2. Hafiz Wahba is an Sgyptian by origin and owing
to his fanatical anti-British sentiments and
political activities, was imprisoned in and later
deported from ilgypt to India during the course of
the war.
In India however it appears that his political
activities were again the cause of his being deport
ed from there and he was returned to Igypt. Later
he was allowed to proceed to Iraq and Koweit to
bring his family to Egypt, but he installed himself
in Bahrain where he opened a school and for some
time acted as correspondent to the Sgyptian news
paper "31 Akbar". Later still he came in touch
with Bin Baud and because of the "Rajal al Khasa"
of the Imam whom he represented at the Koweit
Conference and again at the Bahra Conference, toge
ther with Yusef Yasin.
My information would tend to show that his
anti-British views hav) been considerably modified
It . recently/
His Excellency
the High Commissioner for Palestine,
Jerusalem.