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escaping to this Legation. They were repatriated in August direct to Jibuti
and may serve to mark this route for regular use for this purpose in future.
85. For the first time in its life the Hejazi Government co-operated with
His Majesty’s Government and implemented article 7 of the Jedda Treaty of
1927. They sought out the other boy in Mecca, held courts of enquiry, sent him
to the Legation for repatriation, and followed him up with a full report plus a
request that the Abyssinian Government be invited to force their slave-trading
subject to refund £80, the proceed of his sale to his Hejazi client.
86. There was less inclination shown in investigating a case that had a
similar complexion and concerned one of the Sanusi family, who came on
pilgrimage from the Sudan and was remarked to have returned there without
two of his black attendants. Pressed, however, by His Majesty’s Minister, huad
Bey Hamza made enquiries and reported in July that the two had left Mecca for
Lith and Massowa, which tallied with the Legation's independent information.
IX. —Miscellaneous.
Visitors.
87. His Highness the Nawab of Bahawalpur paid a rapid visit to the Holy
Places of Islam in July.
Mr. Twitched visited Jedda again at the end of July. His work has already
been referred to in paragraph 12.
Marconi’s expert, Mr. Boucicault, left Jedda at the beginning of August to
rig wireless at Tabuk, but at the end of August he still lay half-way, at Wejh,
kicking his heels and calling for petrol.
Staff.
88. Sir A. Ryan went on leave on the 19th July. Mr. Hope Gill became
Charge d’Affaires.
Mr. Furlonge was given a fortnight’s sick-leave on the 26th August to
recuperate at Erkowit in the Sudan.
The second archivist, Captain Lewis, left on the 23rd July for two months’
special leave in England.
89. Before leaving His Majesty's Minister drafted his detailed recom
mendations to the Government of India for the complete reorganisation of the
Indian and medical sections of the Legations, with a view to its taking effect as
from the 1st January, 1932.
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