ملف رقم ٢١٨٢ لسنة ١٩١٣، الجزء ٥، "منطقة نجد بالجزيرة العربية: سياسة ابن سعود" [و‎‎٣‎٥‎٣] (٣٠٨/٢٨١)

Telegram No. G.-19P6, dated the 26th January 1916.
From—The General Officer Commanding, Force ee Basrah,
To—The Chief of the General Staff, Delhi.
Your 35022 (35922?) of 26th January. Yes claims fully considered. My
proposal to give Bin Saud two guns was only limited to that number because
I only have two here to give him. I am in consultation with Cox as to
relative desirability of giving captured small arms and ammunition to Qavvam
or to Bin Saud, but I have no captured small arms immediately available just
now.
Addressed Chief Genstaff; repeated General Headquarters and Cox.
isak
{Copy.)
Telegram P., No. 1170-B., dated the 16th (received 17th) March 1916.
From—The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Delhi.
fRepeated Bushire.)
Munitions for Bin Saud. Please see my 1946-B. and telegraphic cor
respondence.
He asked for 3,000 rifles and the Government proposal was that he should
be given 1,000. On 22nd January Army Commander who only had about
600 available here expressed ability to give him 2 mountain guns and 500
rifles, and Bin Saud was then asked to have party sent here to be trained in
gunnery. Meanwhile Kawam arrived and the 2 guns and 400 rifles reserved
for Bin Saud were given to Kawam owing to urgency of his case.
Two more guns can probably be made serviceable. Meanwhile Bin Saud
asks urgently for an instalment of rifles. Kawam has now left Lingah.
Bifles sent with Sykes will in any case have to go on by instalments as Kawam
is able to arrange for transport. I
I would propose that 1,000 of these rifles and 200,000 rounds be deflected
and sent to Bahrein for Bin Saud, to be replaced later if necessity should
arise. Has this your concurrence ?