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‘Germany, Turkey, England and Arabia. [extracts from ‘The Fight for Arabia between Turkey and England’ by Dr Franz Stuhlmann]’ [‎4r] (7/12)

The record is made up of 1 file (6 folios). It was created in 31 Oct 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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Page 213. It is stated that at the beginning of 1914 the French sent a
representative to Bin Sand who offered him a sum of 100,0002, or 50,000?.
and cheap consignments of arms. When England hoard of this she offered
him a yearly payment of 50,0002. and all the arms lie might require.
Extract (page 217).
" It is hardly possible to draw a horoscope for future policy in Central
Arabia. Hitherto the Turks have had little satisfaction out of the Province
of El-lfasa. It will be difficult for them at the end of a successful war to
open good relations with the family of Bin Sand who have clearly attached
themselves to England, and who with England's help deprived them of the
Provinces of El-Hasa. Probably the policy will be to strengthen the family
of Bin Rashid as much as possible, to help them to become the leading
power, and to set up an administration suitable to the disturbed conditions
of Arabia Then it may perhaps be possible to make out of these regions a
kind of confederation for Turkey. But real influence and security will
only be attained there when a railway crosses the land from a point on the
Hejaz railway, and runs perhaps to Basra or Bahrein. Then, if the idio
syncrasies of the Arabs are spared, it will be possible to create a dam
against the turbulent Bedouin, and to protect all northern Arabia."
Chapter 13. " Irak" (pages 217 to 25!).
"The question of Koweit" (pages 22-1: to 231).
Extract (page 230).
" Many politicians believe that it is not yet certainly established whether
it will be economically an advantage for the Baghdad railway to be
continued beyond Baghdad, because then trade would choose the shorter
line to the sea and not the longer one northwards. I think that the present
war has taught everyone ol us that England is capable of anything, and
that it is not tolerable for us that the great work of the Baghdad railway
should be cut off from the sea if economic conditions require its prolongation
to it."
Extract (page 231).
" The management of the port and the control of navigation from Basra
to the sea is also claimed by England, who in this way can completely
throttle our Baghdad railway at its Gulf end. It is essential that the port of
Basra, the fairway of the Shatt-el-Arab, and the territory of Koweit should
remain lurkish, in order that this Power may undertake there what she
thinks lit in the interest of the country. But we must insist upon this because
we are laying out great sums on the railway which we do not wish to be
dependent on England's favour."
I he oil deposits of Mohammerah," &c. (pages 231 to 239).
" Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates " (pages 239 to 2-11).
"Mesopotamia in the world war " (pages 2-li to 251).
Extract (page 251).
" The outbreak of the complication with Turkey on the 29th October
was a very welcome opportunity to India to carry out her long cherished
purposes. One of the most important glacis for India, namely, the Persian
Gulf, was considered to be threatened by the German railway schemes.
The opportunity was given to destroy these German enterprises even though
they were commercial. A success here would greatly strengthen English

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Confidential memorandum containing a list of chapters and translated extracts from the book Der Kampf um Arabien zwischen der Türkei und England [The Fight for Arabia between Turkey and England] by Dr Franz Stuhlmann of the Hamburgischen Kolonialinstitut [Hamburg Colonial Institute], and published by George Westermann in Hamburg, 1916. The extracts, which begin on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. of folio 1, are preceded by a note, written by Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary to the Political Department of the 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. , and dated 31 October 1916, which draws attention to the academic credentials of Stuhlmann’s book.

The extracts from Stuhlmann’s book cover topics including: the province of Hejaz and the Hejaz railway; the Trans-Arabian railway; the University of Medina; Turkish reforms; Yemen and Asīr, including the railway from Hodeida [Al-Ḥudaydah] to Sanaa [Ṣanʻā']; English interests in southern Arabia; Muscat and Oman; Bahrein [Bahrain] and the Turkish province of El-Hasa [Al-Hasa]; the Wahabis [Wahhābīs] and their successors in Nejd [Najd]; Koweit [Kuwait]; oil deposits in Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]; navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates; Mesopotamia during the War; and extracts from Stuhlmann’s conclusion, which comments on the strategic importance to England of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the importance to Turkey and Germany of the Shatt al-Arab.

An appendix to the memorandum, entitled ‘The importance to Germany of an open Persian Gulf’ is a review of an article that appeared in the journal Europäische Staats und Wirtschafts Zeitung , 18 August 1916, entitled ‘Der persische Golf und die Verkehrspolitik der Mittelmächte’ [The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Commercial Policy of the Central Powers], written by Professor Gerhard Schott of the Deutsche Seewarte [German Hydrographic Office].

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1 file (6 folios)
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The memorandum, which chiefly comprises extracts from a book, is arranged by the book’s chapters, with the pages covering each chapter indicated, and the page numbers for each extract also indicated.

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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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.

Pagination: The booklet contains an original typed pagination sequence.

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