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'Field notes: Mesopotamia. General Staff, India. February, 1917.' [6r] (18/350)
The record is made up of 1 file (169 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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whilst it weakened Turkey in Europe, also had the effect of bar
ring to Germany the direct road to Constantinople and Turkey
in Asia, wilich, rumour had it some years ago, Germany intend
ed to colonise.
Turkey’s defeat in the Balkans led to widespread lawlessness
in 1912 in the Muntafik country and in Kurdistan, in which
province the outbreaks were said to have been fostered by the
Bussians.
' Another result of the weakening of the Central Government Committee of
was the decline in popular favour of the Committee of Union ^ccord m an<1
and Progress and the founding at Baghdad, in January 1912, ‘ r
of a local branch of the Committee of Freedom and Accord,
which was opposed to the former.
In Basrah the anti-Turkish feeling had been still more marked. Arab Move-
In June 1918 the Turkish Commandant of Troops was assassi- raen t.
nated by Arabs, and it was feared that there would be a general
Arab rising.
Disturbances continued in Basrah till March 1914, but the
rising did not come to a head.
The execution of part of Sir William Willcocks’ irrigation irrigation in
scheme for Mesopotamia was entrusted to Sir John Jackson Mesopotamia,
and Company. The first section of this scheme, the construc
tion of the Hindiyah barrage, was completed in December 1913.
Neighbouring Principalities.
The following short history of neighbouring tracts affords
an insight into political relations of the Turks with their neigh
bours.
Kuwait.
_ Kuwait is a tract of country of somewhat uncertain bound
aries directly administered by the Shaikh. He has independ
ently contracted obligations from time to time with the
British Government, and this, the latter maintain, he is quite
justified in doing; the Turks, on the other hand, do not admit
this.
. The family of the present Shaikh, Jabir ibn Mubarak,
originally dwelt in a small fort called Umm Qasr, at the head of
the Khor Abdulla, whence, on account of acts of piracy, they
were expelled by the authorities at Basrah at the end of the
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The file consists of a printed volume regarding the field notes on Mesopotamia. The volume was prepared on behalf of the General Staff, India and printed by the Superintendent Government Printing, India.
The volume is divided into the following chapters:
- I. History.
- II. Geography.
- III. Population.
- IV. Resources.
- V. Notes on the Turkish Army.
- VI. Maritime.
- VII. Administration.
- VIII Communications; Routes in Mesopotamia.
The volume also contains a number of appendices: A. Important personages; B. Table of Distances (in miles); C. Weights, Measures, Currency, Chronology; D. Some notes for officers proceeding to Mesopotamia; Glossary of Terms.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (169 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in a number of chapters and appendices listed in the contents page (folio 4).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 169; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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