ملف رقم ٢١٨٢ لسنة ١٩١٣، الجزء ٥، "منطقة نجد بالجزيرة العربية: سياسة ابن سعود" [و‎‎٢‎٦‎٠] (٣٠٨/٩٥)

Translation of a letter from Ibn Sand to Sir Percy Cox dated
3rd Septerrber 101o.
After C omp1iraent s.
With a cordial and respectful hand I have received your
letter dated the 15th July 1910 -14th Ramzan 1334 and was
pleased to hear of your good health. All that Your Honour
communicated to me has been understood by your sincere friend.
The August letter of His Excellency Lord Chelmsford,
the new Viceroy and Governor General of India,which Your
Honour enclosed together with the Arabic translation thereof
has reached me safely. I thank you very much. I am greatly
obliged and thankful for its highly valued contents. I prey
God that His Excellency's footsteps may be blessed with good
fortune and prosperity.
I beg to pepresent to you that I was tardy in answer
ing His Excellency's auspicious letter.As owing to my not
being acquainted with your ceremonial customs I was not sure
whether I should answer at once or after a short while,and
owing to my intimacy with Your Honour I was anxious to obtain
your advice on the point.
Your Honour informed me with regard to events and
news in a previous letter despatched through His Majesty's
Consul at Bahrain,all of which news I have understood thorough
ly. Your Honour also stated with reference to news from the
Hejaz that El Idrisi,assisted by the Sher±f,had captured the
town of Kunfudah,one of the worts of the Red Sea,with its
citadel and the troons there. This is very likely true because
the Idrisi has been disobedient to the orders of the Turks
from the beginning,and according to what I have heard,his
ideas are sound and he is zealous,bd»th for the Arabs and for
Islam: and truly one who possesses zeal for the Arabs and for
Islam is bound to fight the Turks.
You went on to inform me that the newspaner A1 Muk-
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