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File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’ [‎91r] (186/256)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (124 folios). It was created in 9 Nov 1914-30 Mar 1918. It was written in English and French. 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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Before this miserable occupation, your country
was full of resources which flowed out to other
countries to supply them with wheat, barley, maize,
peas, etc*, out the intruders have been always active
in alluring you by other things until you neglected
this source of wealth, which in turn, flowed into their
land to keep their factories going, and in a word,
wished to see Egypt turned into one big farm for their
home industries.
They deceive you by improving the Finance, but
all the good thereof pours down their pockets by way
of salaries and purchase of Government articles, at
exorbitant prices, from their country. They claimed
having improved the irrigation systems, but it is you
who had begun it before they occupied the land.
Ask them where are the Egyptian weaving
factories, which, had they been left running, would
necessarily by the rule of evolution have attained
such a state as to be able now to cornpete with the
best European weaving factories. Or, where are the
cap (tarboush) factories, which, had they not been
destroyed by the English, would have permitted you
now to export large quantities of those two articles,
aside from meeting the country’s own needs for them,
and the support of thousands of workmen and employees,
who have become now idle frequenters of coffee houses
and whom we see in numerous numbers everywhere.
Ask those intruders and aliens, who sing the
praises of the occupation in your ears - Where are
the schools that used to exist in Egypt before the
occupation and from which graduated great noted men,
some of whom are still in your midst until this day.
Where is the School of Languages and the Wiilitary
School

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Papers concerning Britain’s declaration of Egypt as a British Protectorate in November 1914. The volume includes:

  • Correspondence relating to Britain’s annexation of Cyprus in November 1914, and the status of Cypriots and Egyptians in Cyprus as British subjects (ff 120-125).
  • Papers concerning the status of Egyptians as British subjects (ff 116-119, ff 78-83), including Foreign Office guidance on the new Egyptian Nationality Law, dated 9 June 1915 (f 83).
  • Copies of two proclamations (undated, both translations in English) addressed to the ‘People of Egypt’ (ff 102-115, ff 87-99), one of which claims to have been authored by the Senoussi [Senussi]. The proclamations are responses to Britain’s declaration of Egypt as a British protectorate.
  • Translated documents taken from prisoners on patrols of the Bir Mahadat [Bi’r al Mahdāt], which are anti-British in rhetoric (ff 73-77).
  • A copy of an intercepted letter (in French), dated 26 December 1915, addressed to Mohammed Farid Bey [Muḥammad Farīd], and presumed by British intelligence officials to have been written by Abdul Aziz Shawish [‘Abd al-‘Azīz Shāwīsh] (ff 61-65).
  • Secret reports from MI1 (Military Intelligence, Section 1), reporting intelligence relating to Egypt, Turkey and Germany (ff 47-58).
  • Papers reporting on the movements and actions in 1917 of the ex-Khedive of Egypt [‘Abbās Ḥilmī Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ], including his relations with Turkish officials (ff 5-36).

The volume’s principal correspondents are: the British Ambassador at Berne, Switzerland (Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff, Horace George Montagu Rumbold); the Foreign Office (chiefly Ralph Spencer Paget); 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. (Arthur Hirtzel, John Evelyn Shuckburgh).

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1 volume (124 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 3136 (German War) consists of 6 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/462-467. The volumes are divided into 6 parts, with each part comprising one volume. The part numbers are: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7. There is no part 3.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 126; 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.

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English and French in Latin script
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