IOR/R/15/6/32

This file contains correspondence and reports related to the British Government's response to the announcement of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916 (folios 2-14) and to political-military developments in the Hejaz between 1924 and 1926, notably the conquest of Jeddah and the fall of the Hashemite Kingdom of the Hejaz (folios 15-244).

The majority of the correspondence in the file is between British officials, but it also contains a limited amount of correspondence between European diplomatic staff in Jeddah and the Ruler of Nejd, Ibn Saud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd).

Much of the section of the file that concerns the Hejaz consists of detailed situation reports that were sent to British diplomatic posts (including the Political Agency in Muscat by Britain's Agent and Consul in Jeddah, Reader William Bullard (followed by Stanley R Jordan between December 1924 and February 1926).

In addition, the file contains the following documents:

• 'Notes regarding Policy to be adopted in connection with the revolt of the Sherif of Mecca' (folios 10-11)
• 'Aims of the Indian Caliphate Committee as given to the Foreign Secretary to the Hejaz Government by the Delegation, in writing about January 13th 1925' (folios 57-58)
• 'Minutes of a Conference held at the Colonial Office on the 12th of March, 1926, to discuss matters arising out of Sir Gilbert Clayton's report on his Mission to Ibn Saud' (folios 233-235).