مجموعة ٦/ ٩ "تقارير جدة يناير ١٩٣١ -" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٨] (٨٠٢/٢٥٦)

THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
EASTERN (Arabia).
CONFIDENTIAL.
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January 27. 1936.
Section 1.
Sir A. Ryan to Mr. Eden.—(Received January 27.)
(No. 3. Confidential.)
S* 1 ’ Jedda, January 2, 1936.
I HAVE the honour to submit herewith the Jedda report for December 1935-
Copies have been distributed as in the case of the report for August, and
in addition a copy has, for the first time, been sent to the Commander-in-chief.
East Indies Station, Colombo.
I have, &c.
ANDREW RYAN.
Enclosure.
Jedda Report for December 1935.
I .—Internal Affairs.
Ramadan, which had begun on the 28th November, lasted
until the 2 /th December. Ihus the ensuing Moslem festival followed immediately
on Christmas, a fact which intensified the general holiday feeling in Jedda.
These facts contributed to the calm which prevailed throughout the month. So
far as is known, the King and the Heir Apparent did not stir out of Riyadh.
The Amir leisal stayed there, contrary to expectation, until after Sir Andrew
Ryan s departure, but he left early in the month and got back on the 9th to
Mecca, where he has since remained. Fuad Bey Hamza also left Riyadh early in
December, but he visited Hail and Medina and did not arrive in Jedda until the
20 th, having been delayed on the road from Medina to Jedda by heavy rains He
stayed in Jedda until the 22nd and then went on to Mecca. He did not return
up to the end of the month, but his voice was heard on the telephone. There is
joy in the Hamza family over the birth of a son to Fuad Bey at Beirut on or
about the 17th December.
385. No internal events of political importance came to the notice of the
Legation during the month. It is expected that, when the King visits Hasa early
m January, he will confirm Sand, the son of the late Abdullah-bin-Jiluwi
(paragraph 359 of the last report) as successor to the governorship. He was
Acting Governor when Sir Andrew Ryan passed through in November, and created
on him a most unfavourable impression, but, as this was due partly to a horrible
squint and partly to manners which may have been due to awkwardness, it is too
soon to judge of his capacity.
386. A Saudi aeroplane from Taif visited Jedda at the beginning of the
month, but stayed only a few days.
387. It was reported on good authority early in the month that the Saudi
Government had received by a ship which arrived on the 11 th December samples
of pistols from the Steyr- 8 olothurn Waffen-A.G. of Zurich. It was suggested
that these would be followed by samples of rifles and machine guns.
388. The December calm'did not infect Mr. Twitchell of the Saudi Arabian
Mining Syndicate (paragraph 362 of the last report). He dashed hither and
thither with amazing energy during the greater part of the month, reinforced
from the 11 th December onward by his wife, who arrived in Jedda on that dav
Mr. Van de Poll returned from leave on the 15th December, and at least three
new experts also arrived during the month. It is becoming urgent to determine
the areas which can be worked profitably, as they must be fixed, and subsidiary
exploitation companies formed, within two years of the coming into force of the
original concession. It appears to be intended to form a subsidiary in the near
future for the Mahd adh-Dhahab. where some twenty-five Europeans or
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