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‘The strategic importance of the Euphrates valley railway’ [‎15] (192/204)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (22 pages). It was created in 1873. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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breast,) were turned adrift from the house which had protected them for
some days, at nine o'clock at night to wander whither they could. Hajj
Hassan was subsequently removed from Beyrout to Abeigh, an Anglo-
American (U.S.) Mission station in the Lebanon, probably by the exer
tions of Dr. Thomson, author of The Land and the Book, who distinguishes
himself in Beyrout by daring to have an opinion and to express it, though
unfortunately he stood alone and unsupported. On July 20th, Hajj Hassan
was to be shipped off by night to Alexandria, where he was expected to
' find good employ." Suddenly his passport was refused by the local
authorities, and he was hidden in the house of a Consular Dragoman.
The Porte had sent a secret despatch, ordering him to be transported to
Crete, Cyprus, or one of the islands in the Archipelago, where his fate
may easily be divined. At length a telegram arrived from Constanti
nople, and the result was that, after a fortnight's detention by sickness,
the Hajj Hassan was sent off by the French mail of Friday, August 1 ith.
Verily, the Beyroutines are a feeble folk. They allowed themselves to
be shamefully defeated by Rashid Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. when he was grossly in the
wrong.
I saw at the Mission in Damascus, and obtained leave tocopy the follow
ing testimonial addressed to Captain Burton, and that officer's reply.
"Damascus, 12th July, 1871.
"ToCaptain Burton, H.B.M's. Consul at Damascus.
" Sir,—We beg to tender to you our heartiest thanks for your prompt
decisive action in the case of Hassan the converted Moslem, and also to
congratulate you on the result of your determination and firmness.
" For some time past we had heard that a Moslem converted to Pro
testantism at Beyrout had become subject to considerable persecution.
A convert more obscure than himself has been put out of the way and
has not since been heard of, and Hassan had been subjected to a series
of arrests and imprisonments and had several times narrowly escaped as
sassination. The chief Consulates however had become publicly in
terested in him, so that his safety from legal execution seemed ensured ;
and as he was always accompanied by some one to protect him from as
sassins beseemed for the time to be safe. But on the 29th of June we
were surprised to find that he was being transported to Damascus, having
been arrested and bound in chains. The English colony in Beyrout
became alarmed, as they declared that none so transported to Damascus
ever returned again. Two agents of the Mission were despatched from
Beyrout, one preceding the prisoner to give us information as to what
had taken place, and the other accompanying the prisoner to watch what
became of him. On receiving intelligence of the convert's transporta
tion to this city, the missionaries of the three Missions at Damascus
resolved to lay the case before you, but on doing so found that you had
with your usual energy already taken up the case, and categorically
demanded the release of the prisoners. And though the authorities
ignored the Firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). granting civil and religious liberty to the people
of this Empire, and denied your right to interfere on behalf of the
prisoner, the unflinching stand you took by the concessions of the

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The Strategic importance of the Euphrates Valley Railway , by F M L [Feldmarschallleutnant] Baron Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld, Austrian War Minister, translated by Captain Charles William Wilson. Published by Edward Stanford of 6 & 7 Charing Cross, London, 1873. Authorised translation; second edition. A note at the end of the volume states that the speech was written by von Kuhnenfeld in 1858, and the first edition published in 1869.

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The volume is bound into a larger volume entitled ‘Political Tracts’ (dimensions: 215mm x 135mm), with four other small volumes.

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