"ملف 61/14 I (D 45) العلاقات بين نجد والعراق" [و‎‎١‎٥‎١] (٦٠٦/٣١٥)

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Translation of a letter, Mo* 12b, datea 14th Janadi II, 1545,
I (10 th January 192b), from iiis llighness the uitarr of i-ejd to
Uie Political Resident in the Persian Gulf•
Af t e x com ;' 1 iraen ts .
I beg to state that having received a telegram from
jrHls Excellency the High Commissioner for Iraq through lir.
• , Bui lard, the British Agent at Jeddah, I have sent ray reply
thereto through the came medium : it must have reached Your
Honour "by now and you have come to know of its contents and
wired the same to His r,:-:cellency the Higl Commissioner for Iraq.
The following however is the te^ct of it :~
I have no knowledge at all of the occurrences taken
tblace on the Iraq frontier. I have sent a message to ray
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irihes to stop them in their raids on the iraq frontiers, and
f ^tave no doubt that full de tails of the occurences will reach me
yliowin^ the reasons that have caused the same , after enquiries
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, re instituted.
yl I have often represented to His ri tannic mjesty 's
|hovernment in their capacity as Mandatory Government over Iraq
blbout I jd ' s criminal tribesmen taking refuge in Iraq territory
and with the Iraq tribes living thereabout, but they did not
pettle the question of these tribes' encroachments, and they
■ere, therefore, Committing their deeds of plundering, robbing
(pnd raiding, and after having done these they used to reside in
Iraq territory. X have no doubt that what has taken place
there is one of the results of the excited sta^e which prompted
me hejd tribes (to perpetrate the occurrence) in consequence
If repeated encroachments u^on them,
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othing will settle these disputes but the ratification
of special agreements for preventing raids,and surrender of
tribal criminals as was proposed by my representatives at the
Kuwait Conference. X am still prepared to conclude special
agreements with the Iraq Government of His Britannic Majesty^
Government in their capacity as .andatory Government for the
purpose of establishing safety on the frontiers/ of the two
countries, Nejd and Iraq and for the stemming up of raids by
the tribes of the two countries.
Usual ending.