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'Correspondence with the Grand Sherif of Mecca' [‎7r] (13/16)

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The record is made up of 1 file (8 folios). It was created in 24 Sep 1914-10 Mar 1916. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Freiichmon who have died sid^ by side ligliting for the Cause of Right and
Liberty.
In this great cause Arabia is now associated and Gud grant that the
result of our mutual efforts and co-operation will bind us in a lasting
friendship to the mutual welfare and happiness of us all!
We are greatly pleased to hear of the action you are taking to win all
the Arabs over to our joint cause and to dissuade them from giving any
assistance to our enemies, and we leave it to your discretion to seize the
most favourable moment for further and more decided measures.
You will doubtless inform us by the bearer of this letter of any manner
in which we can assist you and your requests will always receive our
immediate consideration.
^ on will have heard how El Sayed Ahmed el Sherif el Senussi has been
beguiled by evil advice into hostile action, and it will be a great grief to
yon to know that lie has been so far forgetful of the interests of the Arabs
as to throw in his lot with our enemies. Misfortune has now overtaken
him and we trust that this will show him his error and lead him to peace
for the sake of his poor misguided followers.
W e are sending this letter by the hand of your good messenger, who
will also bring to you all our news.
With salaams.
A. H. M c M ahon.
2o Rabi al Awwal.
18.- Communication from the Grand Sherif of Mecca to the High
Commissioner, Cairo.
In the name of the Merciful, the Compassionate, to the most noble His
Excellency the High Commissioner. May God protect him.
After compliments and respects. We received your Excellency's letter
dated 25 Rabi al Awwal, and its contents filled us with the utmost pleasure
and satisfaction at the attainment of the required understanding and the
intimacy desired. 1 ask God to make easy our purposes and prosper our
endeavours. Your Excellency will understand the work that is being done,
and the reasons for it from the following -
Firstly. —A\ e had informed your Excellency that w r e had sent one of our
sons to Syria to command the operations deemed necessary there. We
have received a detailed report from him stating that the tyrannies of the
Government there have not left of the persons upon whom they could
depend, whether of the different ranks of soldiers or of others, save only a
few, and those of secondary importance; and that he is awaiting the arrival
of the forces announced from different places, especially from the people of
the country and the surrounding Arab regions as Aleppo and the south of
Mosul, whose total number is calculated at not less than 100,000 by their
estimate; and he intends, if the majority of the forces mentioned are Arab,
to begin the movement by them : and, if otherwise, that is, of the Turks or
others, he will observe their advance to the canal, and when they begin to
fight, his movements upon them will be different to what they expect.
Secondly —\\ e purposed sending our eldest son to Medina with sufficient
forces to strengthen his brother (who is) in Syria, and with every possibility
ol occupying the railway line, or carrying out such operations as circum
stances may admit. This is the beginning of the principal movement, and
we are satisfied in its beginning with what we had levied as guards to keep
the interior of the country quiet; they are of the people of llijaz only, for
many reasons, which it would take too long to set forth, chiefly the
difficulties in the way of providing their necessities with secrecy and speed
(although this precaution was not necessary) and to make it easy to bring
reinforcements when needed ; this is the summary of what you wished to
understand, in my opinion it is sufficient, and it is to be taken as a
foundation and a standard as to our actions in the face of all changes and
untoreseen events which the sequence of events may show. It remains for
us to state what we need at present.
s. aou. j)

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This secret file is a collection of printed correspondence. It contains telegrams between Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham, Acting High Commissioner at Cairo, and the Foreign Office, letters from and correspondence between Shaikh Abdalla Ibn Hosayn [Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] and his father, Hussein bin Ali [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī ], Sherif of Mecca, and Mr Storrs, Oriental Secretary to the British Representative in Cairo and Sir McMahon, High Commissioner in Cairo. The subject of the correspondence is the Arab revolt to obtain independence from the Ottoman Empire, with the Sherif writing to the British to request protection and acknowledgment of the Arab countries' independence under an Arab Caliphate.

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The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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