File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [‎165r] (17/840)

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But tsven lard AXXtaby'a olala that h« waa rafipanalble
far iUcaba afld Kaan waa appartutly not w&nt to prajudioo their
future atatus. CoXoael C # ^ viXaon 9 the British ^ent at
Jsddah t was instruoted by His Maissty's High Corsnissloner at
Cairo in January lul? to ejtpiai/i the above pas it ion as regards
appolJitoMmta at Afcaba to Hixt^ Haase in # the tele gran to
Colonel Wilatfa oontlxmed "Point out that Kind's reuttnoiation
'will he sHort«lived # sinae Afcaba aast very so or* oeaee to be a
"military bane and return to small village"*
in oonveylag this message to iCing Hueaein Colonel
Wilson wrote j- *2he presect is purely
temporary* and dhaba must soon cease to be a military base;
"until then all that in required is for these officials to
' refer to Bomsous for their instructions as they used to do"*
dub equently the creation of the independent territory
of ' Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan au&er i&lr Abdullah after the British evacuation
brought up again the question of the ownership of ^aan and
\kaba* Suggestlon^ were even reoeived from British officiila
in Foiestine that Afc&ba should became a port of Palestine*
the invitation to the British to return to franc Jordan
opens a new chapter* in which the determination of His Hajesty*
Covernraent that Utah* and Moan should belong to TrarasJordan
gradually crystallised into the instraction© issued to Colonel
Knox before the Howe it conference in December ItSB* that he
should attempt to obtain the reooijaition of beth Hussein and
Ibn Baud to the proposal that the Hsjas-TrafisJordan boundary
should run from the point of intersection of meridian with
parallel (due west of the Sefud ealient) to a point on
the Hejas railway in the neighbourhood of wudawarra, and
thence to a point on the Sulf of Jcaba south of Ctaba town.
fhe question of kaan and Afcaba was thus* in fact*
1 ft over after the war for friendly urramreiaefit with King
Hussein/