ملف [٤/١٠] العلاقات البريطانية مع بن سعود: لقب سلطان نجد؛ استسلام حائل؛ دفع الإعانات المالية البريطانية؛ عمليات هجوم الإخوان على الحدود العراقية والكويت؛ إنشاء جواز سفر نجد [و‎‎٣‎٨] (٥٦٠/٧٥)

Telegram (P).
Prom Political, Kuwait.
To Highcoma, Baghdad.
No. 175-C.
Dated 16th October 1921.
Your telegram No.2206 of 16th September. I have received
a reply from Ibn Sa’ud dated 6th October to the effect
that there is no reason for mediation , because, as you
are aware, the country is a part of his Najd dominions.
The place belongs to Ibn Mut'ab who has come in to him
and not to Ibn Talal at all whose ill fieeds have raised
the indignation of everyone. Ibn Talal and his evil fol
lowers are now besieged and entirely cut off and all the
Bedouins and settled people of Jabal Shammar are under
Ibn Sa’ud’s rule. Ibn Sa’ud is personally present to
prevent the Ikhwan from attacking Hail because he dislikes
bloodshed and because ^ all the people of Hail want him
and he will take it by degrees. Ibn Talal has sued for
peace but He has refused his request and is insisting on
his personal surrender.
Secondly. Regarding the Shammar refugees they are his
subjects as the Jabal Shammar belonged to his fathers .
Last spring they surrendered to him and asked for pardon
and paid him zakat ; but in the summer they returned to
their evil ways and took refuge in ’Iraq, whence they have
raided his subjects wholesale. For them to raid ^ goods
and kill jb* people and then for rhe ’Iraq. Government to
shelter £& them is likely to break the bonds of friend-
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ship between - ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية *, unless the guilty be punished to which
ever of the two parties he belong^, and be made to return
his loot. For the Shammar who are south of the Euphrates
to take refuge in friends’ country when they are
guilty subjects would be a shame. It is what he has feared
and warned you against in his letters repeatedly, it is
impossible for things to go right until these troubles be
removed, especially with the ’Iraq. Government. He knows