"الملف ٥/ج مسائل حدودية: الهجمات على الإخوان؛ النزاع بين الشيخ سالم وابن سعود" [و‎‎٩‎٥] (٢٣٠/١٨٩)

Political Acanoy, Kuwait.
IV th. Sul? I -
To th« Oivil Ooniiaoione®?,
BAGHDAD.
Ref or sixoo rjy tolofran Ho. 3^ C, clatod tlio 13th July 1920
I anolooe horowith dhalkti Salim 1 a latter of the 12t5i inat in
oriGinal, together with a translation. It is in reply to a letter
of mine, Ho. pno of the ! th. Inst., In i^iioh I aabodied the rsain
referflnoe to your opinion tJiat tlie probable result of nesotiationfl
would be that lUa territoiy eeulcl be reetrioted to a aaoller area
tJian th t Given by t]xe AnGlo-Tur!d.oh Convention.
1 had a long Interview witlx hin on the i , .\nd care*
fully explained the variouo :x>into to him in detail. He ms ^eatOy
distreooed over tli© AnGlo*Turkiah Convention, .ind kept repeating
over and over again ttat Captain Moflollun }iad shown loin thia
frontier on a aap and told him definitely that it was his for all
tine. He talked wildly of going to war with Ibn Oa'ud if he would
not order Fhiaal ad-Dawiah to nalce restitution, aa, he aoid, he
could not in honour leave his ’U-Oal” in hie hands. He said he felt
atroixg enough to beat Ibn 3a*ud, and opened his oliirt and allowed
ne a wound on iila cheat - prosuaably to ia ress uixin n© that he
not frightened of war. As lie was cjuite inoapable of uadmm%m^
reason at the tine, I left hin to think over ; :y letter, whioh he
liikl not as yet seen.
X saw him again on the 12th. m tixe date on ^hiah he wrote,
the letter and he wan than oonalderaWy oalMr and l«ea thlrotliy.
fox’ WTX'. He still 2: ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية harplas on the Anslo-TurXlah CotwanUon, '
points of your telegrao Ho. 7265 , but, of oourae, onitting all