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ANNEX

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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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