IOR/L/PS/10/387/2

Part 5 concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and, to a lesser extent, Britain's relations with the Grand Sherif [Sharif] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]. It includes the following:

• a copy of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, dated 26 December 1915, plus a copy of the ratified treaty, dated 18 July 1918;
• reports of an agreement between Bin Saud and Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
• details of munitions that are to be given by the British to Bin Saud;
• translated copies of correspondence between the High Commissioner, Cairo, and the Grand Sherif of Mecca;
• discussion as to whether the British should press Bin Saud to take specific action to assist both the British and the recently deposed Grand Sherif of Mecca;
• details of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's meetings with Bin Saud.

The principal correspondents are the following:

• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (as both Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force D);
• Bin Saud;
• Viceroy of India [Charles Hardinge, succeeded by Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
• Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain];
• High Commissioner, Cairo (Sir Arthur Henry McMahon);
• Grand Sherif of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī];
• Foreign Office;
• Secretary to the India Office's Political Department (Arthur Hirtzel).