مجموعة ٦/ ٩ "تقارير جدة يناير ١٩٣١ -" [و‎‎٢‎٨‎٨] (٨٠٢/٥٧٦)

THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
EASTERN (Arabia).
PZ.
February 14, 1933.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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Section 2.
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No. 1.
*SzV A. Ryan to Sir John Simon.—[Received February 14.)
(No. 38. Confidential.)
Jedda, January 31, 1933.
I HA\ E the honour to forward herewith the Jedda report for November
and December 1932. This report has been compiled by Mr. Hope Gill, who
was in charge of the Legation during nearly the whole of the period under review.
1 have made no material alterations in the report as drafted by him.
2. It has been found in practice that the system of preparing these reports
at intervals of two months has not produced the advantages which were
anticipated when it was introduced at the beginning of 1931. The labour
involved in compiling them from the mass of material which accumulates in a
post of varied activities has been heavy, and there has been a tendency to over-
systematise the reports in an effort to make them comprehensive. There has
consequently been frequent delay in issuing the reports, and I think that they
have become too unwieldy for the purposes of some of the recipients, while others
are already familiar from current correspondence with the subjects which
interest them.
3 Having discussed the matter with your Department while on leave.
I propose to return to the system of monthly reports and to make them shorter
by dealing only with the salient events of 1 each month in a form resembling
a news-letter rather than a systematic account of everything that has happened
I understand that this will meet your views, and I trust that it will not diminish
the value of the reports to other recipients.
4. I am sending copies of this despatch and enclosure as usual to Cairo,
Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, Bagdad, Basra, Bushi re, K oweit, New Delhi,
Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Aden, Addis Ababa, LigosTKEarfilnr, Port'SudanT'
the Senior Naval Officer in Red Sea sloops, and to the Royal Air Force Officer
Commanding in Palestine and Transjordan. I am sending copies also to the
Commander-in-chief, Mediterranean Fleet, Malta, at his request and to the
Political Agent, Bahrein, at the request of the Political Resident in the
Persian Gulf. ^
I have, &c.
ANDREW RYAN.
(Confidential.) Enclosure in No. 1.
Jedda Report for November and December, 1932.
1.—Internal affairs—
Jbn Sand
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Finance ...
Economics
Legislation
Nationality Law
Waqfs
Communications
Locusts
II.—Frontier questions—
Transjordan
Raiding
Beni Atiya
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Index.
Paragraphs
334-336
337
338-340
341-342
343
344
345
346
347
11.—Frontier questions (contd .)—
Transjordan (contd .)—
Hashimite intrigue ...
Saudi reaction
British intervention ...
Mutual recognition ...
Iraq
Koweit and Bahrein ...
Survey of Koweit
Bahrein transit dues
Asir and the Yemen ...
Asir revolt
348-359
348
349
111.—Foreign relations—
International
Great Britain
Paragraphs
350-353
354-355
356-358
359
360
361-362
361
362
363-366
363-366
367
368-369
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