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Copy of a telegram No. 355 dated 29th November, 1941
from Jedda to Foreign Office.
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Please repeat to Cairo for Minister of State
telegram No. 174.
SECRET
(a)
(b)
My telegram No. 347 paragraph 4.
Military advantages which de Gaury has in mind are:
Potential advantages:
(1) Use of Palestine-Koweit tracks
(2)
(4)
Landing grounds in Northern Arabia.
Use of great sand belts which would give
invaluable respite and act as a valuable mole.
Supply of oil and use of refinery at Dhahran
oil-field.
(5) Room to manoeuvre east of Akaba and
Transjordan.
Immediate advantages:
(1) Removal of the Italian Legation and colony
from Saudi Arabia.
(2)
Freedom from internment of our men if forced
Contre to enter or land in Saudi territory.' of the movements of foreigners.
Repeated to Cairo under Foreign Office No. 42107
INDIV.
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