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instances as those mentioned by Your Highness, will be capable of
settlement without real difficulty by the two Governments of 'Iraq
and Nejd acting in sincere co-operation.
4. With regard to Your Highness' misgivings as to the efficacy of
an agreement such as I have proposed, I rely with full confidence on
Your Highness' repeated assurances of good-will and sincere desire
for peace and order on the frontier.
I have, etc.,
GILBERT CLAYTON.
Bahra,
31st October, 1925.
Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.B.E., etc., His Britannic Majesty's Commis-
sioner and Plenipotentiary, to His Highness `Abdu'l-Aziz ibn
'Abdu'r-Rahman al-Faisal Al Sa'ud, Sultan of Nejd and its
Dependencies.
Your HighnESS,
I have the, honour to recall that in one of our recent conversations
I spoke to Your Highness about the necessity of settling the question
of loot and losses resulting from past raids by tribes from ‘Iraq and
Nejd, and we agreed that it would be necessary to lay down general
principles and formulate a procedure for the satisfactory settlement
of this question.
2. In accordance with our agreement, Taufiq Bey Suwaidi, the 'Iraq
representative, has discussed the question with Sheikh Hafiz and
Sheikh Yusuf, and they have come to a preliminary agreement on the
subject. I have the honour, therefore, to request that Your High-
ness may, if you see fit, signify to me your concurrence in the follow-
ing proposals :-
(a) That the ‘Uqair Conference should be taken as the start-
ing point for reckoning the losses claimed respectively by Iraq
and Nejd on account of the raids which have taken place between
that Conference and the date of ratification by the 'Iraq Govern-
ment of the Bahra Agreement.
(b) That the tribunal provided for in Article 2 of the Bahra
Agreement should be charged with the task of enquiring into the
claims of both sides and of assessing compensation due for the
losses resulting from raids taking place during the above-
mentioned period, without prejudice to the other duties which
this tribunal will have to perform in the future.