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13. File 57/1928 Pt 19 'Nejd-Transjordan Frontier situation.'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns diplomatic negotiations over the settlement of frontier issues between Transjordan and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd.The file includes correspondence from: the Colonial Office; the Foreign Office; the High Commissioner for Transjordan; HM Chargé d’Affaires, Jeddah; and Fuad Hamza, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd.The papers cover: the arbitration investigations of Mervyn Sorley MacDonnell [who was appointed by the British Government to examine claims arising from cross-border raids]; correspondence from MacDonnell concerning the use of the oath in Bedouin disputes, September 1930; correspondence concerning an insult to the Hejaz and Nejd Agent at Amman (Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Zeid) in September 1930 by Hamad bin Jazi, of the Howaitat [Banū al-Ḥuwayṭāt] tribe, including the personal attitude to the insult of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], as 'the effective "Hejaz Government"'; reports of continuing cross-border raids into both Transjordan and Hejaz and Nejd; report by Royal Air Force Headquarters, Jerusalem, on the possibility of aggression by Ibn Saud against Transjordan or the Yemen (folios 235-243); complaints by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mecca, of 'insults' against their Agent, and representatives of their tribes, from certain subjects of Transjordan at Amman, October 1930; and protests by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mecca, against raids.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 518; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
14. File 4535/1928 Pt 15 ‘ANGLO-PERSIAN NEGOTIATIONS, 1929- Arbitration Articles in General & Commercial Treaties.’
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- Abstract: This part contains papers, mostly correspondence, mainly relating to the inclusion of arbitration provisions in the General Treaty and the Commercial Treaty which were being negotiated between the United Kingdom and Persia [Iran]. It includes papers concerning the question of what the terms of any such arbitration articles should be, and the question of whether or not an arbitration article should be included in the General Treaty.In addition, this part includes some correspondence relating to the question of whether or not Iraq would be covered by Article 1 (regarding friendship and non-aggression) of the proposed General Treaty with Persia.This part includes the British draft proposal for an arbitration article in the General Treaty, the Persian Minister of Court’s comments on this draft article, a letter from HM Minister at Tehran (Robert Henry Clive) to the Persian Minister of Court, and draft versions of a proposed arbitration article in a letter from Clive to the Foreign Office, which are all written in French.The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Dominions Office; the Commercial Relations and Treaties Department of the Board of Trade; and HM Minister at Tehran. Other correspondents include the Colonial Office and the Admiralty.In addition, this part includes India Office Political Department minute papers.Physical description: 1 item (76 folios)
15. File 57/1928 Pt 10 'Nejd-Transjordanian Frontier: Situation. 1928-29'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation on the frontier between Transjordan and the Kingdom of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), particularly in terms of crossborder raids into both states.The papers cover: reports of raids (dates, identity of leaders, locations, casualties, and details of camels and other property looted); reports of the alleged crossing of the Nejd frontier by British aircraft from Transjordan, including an apology by the British Government for one such incident in May 1929; the levying of customs duties on the border; reports of raids from Transjordan into Nejd; complaints about raids into Nejd by Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and officials of the Government of Hejaz and Nejd; arms trafficking; the British response to raids from Transjordan (the British admitted the validity of Ibn Saud's complaints, folio 618); frontier infringements by government officials; measures for the protection of caravans (folios 439-441); British protests over raids into Transjordan; records of interdepartmental discussions by British officials concerning the raids; a despatch concerning the raids from the High Commissioner for Transjordan, including a report by Air Vice Marshall Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding (folios 290-318); papers concerning the investigations of Mervyn Sorley MacDonnell, who was appointed by the British Government to examine claims arising from the raids; and suggestions that arms and ammunition landed at Jeddah were for the use of tribesmen on the Transjordan 'front', September 1930.The volume includes correspondence from: the Colonial Office; the Foreign Office; the High Commissioner for Transjordan; HM Agent and Consul, Jeddah; HM Chargé d’Affaires, Jeddah; HM Minister, Jeddah; Ibn Saud; and Fuad Hamza, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 888; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 338-888; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
16. Copy of a Letter from HM Ambassador to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto
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- Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 9 from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto, of 9 May 1813. The letter concerns a dispute regarding a pensioner of the East India Company, Mahommed Nebe Khan [Muhammad Nabi Khan], the Vizier of the Governor of Fars, Prince Hussein Ali Mirza, in which Khan was made the public defaulter on the Governor’s debts and taken prisoner. Ouseley gives an account of his interference in the dispute, so as to uphold the prestige of the East India Company, including his nomination of Acting Resident at Busheer [Bushehr], William Bruce, to serve in a joint Anglo-Persian commission to arbitrate in the dispute. The letter encloses a letter from Ouseley to Bruce, of 8 May 1813, in which Ouseley nominates Bruce to serve on the arbitration commission.The dispatch was enclosed in Ouseley’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 July 1813 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/140), which was received on 24 January 1814.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
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