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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
EASTERN (Arabia). August 24, 1933.
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 1.
[E 4921/902/25] No. 1.
Mr. Calvert to Sir John Simon. — (Received August 24.)
(No. 252. Confidential.)
Sir, Jedda, August 4, 1933.
I HAVE the honour to submit herewith the Jedda report for July 1933.
2. Copies have been distributed as in the list appended to the report for
January.
I have, &c.
A. S. CALVERT.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Jedda Report, July 1933.
I .—Internal Affairs.
134. The King remained in Riyadh throughout the month. Emir Feisal,
who is summering at Taif, remained there all the month, Taif becoming as usual
the headquarters of the Saudi Government during the hot weather, as far as the
Hejaz is concerned. Fuad Bey Hamza visited Jedda twice before leaving by the
steamship Taif on the 12th July for Egypt en route for the Saudi-Transjordan
Conference at Jerusalem (see paragraph 145 below), and Sheikh Abdulla
Suleiman, Minister of Finance, paid two visits to Jedda during Fuad Bey s
absence, in circumstances which will be described later in this report
(paragraph 148).
135. The Legislative Assembly also moved up to Taif at the end of June,
and, according to the Umm-al-Qura of the 30th June, was to resume its session,
which had been adjourned on the 29th June, on the 8th July in its summer-
quarters.
136. A decree was issued at the end of June exempting passengers to Taif
by motor-car from road (“ koshan ”) taxes up to the first week in October.
137. The Hyderabad textile industry scheme (see paragraph 58 (d) of the
report for April last) rather unexpectedly took a long step forward with the
arrival from India by the steamship Jehangir on the 17th July of a quantity of
machinery, believed to be looms, and a number of bales of cotton. Further details
are lacking of the materials which, at the end of the month, were lying in the
customs warehouse at Jedda awaiting permission for entry into the country free
of customs duty, a permission the Saudi authorities show no great alacrity to
grant. The stuff is addressed to Dr. Moin-ud-Din, who, together with two
weavers, is reported to have come on pilgrimage this year and remained on in
Medina. It is understood that official permission for their work, the weaving of
“ ihrams,” has already been secured.
138. On the 10th July an official announcement was made by Government
decree published a little unusually by special supplement of the Umm-aZ-Qura of
that date, concerning the grant of the Hasa Oil Concession to the Standard Oil
Company of California (reference paragraph 109 of last report). The decree
appeared alone, and inter alia contained a reference to an agreement; defined the
area of the concession vaguely, as “the eastern portion of our Saudi Arab
Kingdom, within the frontiers”; and also alluded to a special agreement which
was to supplement the main agreement. The terms of the concession were