"ملفات 61/12 و 61/16 (D 80) معاهدة بين بان سعود والحكومة البريطانية" [و‎‎٧] (٤٠٨/٢٤)

61/10 & 61/1 fo
Telegram
Prom Foreign Office, London.
To British Agent, Jeddah.
Repeated H.M.S. H CORNFLOWER M .
High Commiasloner, Baghdad.
High Commissioner, Jerusalem.
Resident, Bushire.
No. 3.
Dated 27th received 28th May 1925.
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Your telegrams Kos. 76 and 79.
Following message should be despatched to Ibn
Saud by the oar earliest possible opportunity, begins.
His Majesty^ Government have received Your
Highness 9 intimation of your intention to despatch a force
against Akaba. Your Highness will recollect that this
town lies within the boundary within which you were informed
in October last that any unprovoked aggression on Your High-
-ness * part should be regarded as sun attack upon territory
for which His Majesty's Government are responsible. His
Majesty's Government cannot allow Akhwan forces to violate
the frontier laid down, and if an Akhwan force attempts to
enter Akaba His Majesty's Government will inevitably be
flompelled to take such steps as are necessary to prevent or
eject them.
His Majesty's Government fully realize that
Your Highness would have a legitimate cause of complaint were
this
the territory within boundary to be used as a base for
Hejaz operations against Hejd. They understand that Your
Highness believes this to be the case, and they realise that
the continued presence of e3c~J£ing Husain at Akaba lends
colout to this view. They have therefore decided to
invite him to proceed elsewhere. At the same time they
are