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File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’ [108r] (220/256)
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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endure all the sh^rae and disgrace that Christianity has
heaped upon him. Thus are you stricken hy the disaster
of English occupation, each of you jealous for his morals
and filled with hatred of those who are subverting your
religion and your Koran.
Once you held sway in your own land, but how do you
fare to-day? Your state is quite the opposite, for base
men now are wielding the power, while you live as strangers
in your native country, servants of the invader. The
English wrenched the Sudan from you after sedition and
lawlessness had there devoured thousands of your sons.
They took it back (from the Mahdi ) by means of your guns
and swords and the sacrifice of your dearest blood and the
millions of pounds you spent in sending an expedition there
After the victory was yours and the country again under
your power, those treacherous invaders hoisted the English
flag over it instead of the holy flag of Turkey (or Egypt),
claiming that the Sudan was theirs by legal right which
you must perforce recognise. You accepted this in humility
and were compelled to surrender to them your country. If
they had even made a just division and given you some of
the profits and official posts in the Sudan, however few.
But no, they seized everything for themselves, so that
now they are the lords and you their servants. You are
told of those regiments of the Egyptian army who are
compelled to serve under the English in the Sudan, how they
merit the name of porters or menials rather than soldiers.
You need only ask any unbiassed officer in the Egyptian
forces to know how those English scoundrels behave in the
Sudan. The occupation has also fostered enmity and hatred
amongst yourselves until relationships of kindness and
consideration between man and man have been cut off, and
you
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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.
- Physical characteristics
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 View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/467
- Title
- File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’
- Pages
- 102r:115v, 87r:99v
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