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File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’ [‎103r] (210/256)

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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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come, you never reflect for » moment on your enemy's
treachery and sinister designs, you, who are millions in
number and are descended from the mightiest of victorious
warriors, v/iu you be pleased to live humiliated in your
own country, slaves to tyrannous and rapacious Christians
wno upon you from svsry sid. 9 ?
Lift up your eyes to the ancient monuments in your
Imd. The thousands of travellers who visit them yearly
bow in adoration, lost in wonder at the science and know
ledge of your forefathers of old. Detractors and evil
hearted men among your enemies may deny this noble lineage.
But if you examine the books of history, you will know that
Saj^ ad-Din a]-Aiyubi, Sultan of Egypt waged war for
decides with armies drawn from your Egyptian ancestors
and from the Turks and Kurds. Those conflicts which men
call the crusades, ended in the victory of the Sultan's
arms over the combined forces of the Franks, the overthrow
of Richard the Lion-hearted and the capture of King Louis
of France. Will you accept humiliation and abasement, will
you be content with an existence worse than death, will you
endure a tyranny intolerable even to the beasts of the
field? Will you do all this after God has bestowed on you
all his gifts; after He has overwhelmed you, as no other
nation with His bountiful and glorious mercies?
How can I behold you plunged in pleasures and obedient
to base desires, your ears deaf to cries of warning and
your eyes blind to the deeds of them that work iniquity!
France, England, Russia - are the weak ever safe from their
hands? Has any Muhammadan people ever escaped their
cunning? How can this brief space contain the list of
infamies France has done, the injustice she has practised in
Tunis

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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)
Arrangement

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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