ملف رقم ٢١٨٢ لسنة ١٩١٣، الجزء ٥، "منطقة نجد بالجزيرة العربية: سياسة ابن سعود" [و‎‎٢‎٧‎٩] (٣٠٨/١٣٣)

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Translation of a Ini tor fro® Al:»d ? : >1—Asslas Iho Abd
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Fr^tahrmn &l*4?&tm&l to : Us ;ononr Hir Porcy f ! os #
Majostr f s Consul Motional in tt.*e Porsi*-n Tulf *
In tlio hobo of '^od t!to HorcifiJl#
After
Vour .Mriond bad tlio honour to roeoire your
letter a.nd una©r stood the ran too to*
deferring specifically to i^?at you wrote?
(i) As regards our fi^itirg with the Al~3Jt*rratt tribe
and your re.-rret that Ite Kaahlct was able to keen his position
safe at hall * I wmiM inform 5 our lionmir, in that conroctlor f
that our fiifitlpg with the al^-urroh was an nr pent matter,
althmi^b P no doiiht# it was ssy into rests that were primarily
inrolvod yet those to nonet extent are connected with the
interests of iireat hritatn al^o#
Yon doubtless arc? ntmre that the Al-’hirrah are allies
of the Titrlrs c«rrl that tlw 'furlw hav# an alliance with Tbn
httslild and his tribes* It was the intention of t!?e Al- urrsh
to pressed towards hnwait in to co-operate with the Turlrs
and Urn liashid* and had they done so there would certainly hare
hron soma untoward res It either in Tract or in my direction#
Their intentions however became evident before the event by
reason of their many activities in the direction of Ptmm and
Katif and. their plundering and marau liugi and I was oorfnollrd
to deal with the® as m enemy firstly, because they bed
s^iressed on my subjects and secondly, beemise it wits necessary
to prevent their joining their allies r;enficmed above* T
appealed to od for assistance and by die help they are now
annihilated and are no longer of any importsmee*
And as to Ibu Bashid bei?ig able to maintain h±n position
BOSuro at .hail, there in m ' I MWI neraen who gave you
this information was an enemy# fie ras probably one of the
following