IOR/L/PS/10/1241

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.