"ملف 61/11 V (D 95) مسائل متنوعة خاصة بالحجاز ونجد" [و‎‎٢‎٢‎٣] (٥٣٠/٤٦٢)

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September 26, 1933.
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Mr. Murray to Sir John Simon.
(No. 722.)
HIS Majesty s representative at Rome presents his compliments to the
t0 4 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit herewith
1Si i( copy of a note from the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs respecting the
- f dispute between King Ibn Saud and Imam Yahia.
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Rome, September 22, 1933.
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Enclosure in No. 1.
Note verbale communicated hy the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
(Translation.)
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1(i ^ IN their fro-memoria of the 15th July His Britannic Majesty's Embassy
drew the attention of the Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the state of the
relations between Ibn Saud and the Imam Yahia as being one calculated to result
, in the outbreak of an armed conflict, and added that, with a view to avoiding
•® l|. the outbreak of hostilities, the British Government had already, and in strong
r ] j' terms, urged counsels of moderation on the Saudi Government, and they trusted
1 that the Royal Government would for their part, in accordance with
conclusions (1) and (2) of the Rome conversations of 1927, proceed similarly with
the Imam, and take all possible steps to ensure that neither the Imam himself
nor the followers of the Idrisi should receive assistance and encouragement of
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, any kind from territory under Italian sovereignty.
In a further pro-memoria, dated the 3rd August, His Britannic Majesty's
soi i Embassy stated that the Government at London had received information that
the Imam had prevented the Saudi delegation at Sanaa from leaving the Yemen
^ or from communicating with King Ibn Saud; and they requested the Royal
the tit Ministry for Foreign Affairs to make urgent representations to the Imam with
a view to the latter restoring their liberty to the above-mentioned delegation.
, was at Finally, in their note verbale of the 30th August last. His Britannic
dtti Majesty's Embassy, while stating that the two Arabian Monarchs were again in
teitrf telegraphic, communication, represented that, according to a report received from
the British Charge d'Affaires at Jedda, the Imam had demanded of King Ibn
nljl' Saud the cession of Nejran and the postponement of the other questions at issue;
^.i. that, according to the Saudi interpretation of an agreement concluded in 1927
| va l(,i between the two States, Nejran and northwards was to belong to the Saudi
it of® Arabian Kingdom, while Wayla and southwards was to belong to the Yemen;
€lll . that the Imam had accepted this settlement except where it related to the Idrisi
territory; and that the Imam's recent request would therefore appear to
constitute a repudiation of the agreement in question. His Britannic Majesty's.
IrfCe Embassy finally asked what was the Imam's version of the dispute regarding
Nejran and the above-mentioned agreement of 1927.
2. In reply to the above communications, the Royal Ministry for Foreign
Affairs have the honour to inform His Britannic Majesty's Embassy as follows:—
The information in the possession of the Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
is to the effect that there was no question of any detention of the Saudi delegation
at Sanaa, such as that described in His Britannic Majesty's Embassy's
pro -memoria of the 3rd August. This information was implicitly confirmed by
a Saudi official communique, published in the semi-official Jedda paper
Umm -al-Qura of the 11th August, which makes no mention of such a detention,
and states that the Saudi delegation had left Sanaa, as the illness of the Imam
did not permit him to continue the conversations already begun; the communique
added that, as was stated in His Britannic Majesty's Embassy's note verbale of
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