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File 4744/1915 Pt 1 'German War - Arabia. The Arab Bureau at Cairo' [106r] (121/384)
The record is made up of 1 item. It was created in 10 Dec 1915-6 Mar 1918. 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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TREASURY CHAMBERS,
September 2nd, 1916.
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iviy Lord:-
I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of
His Majesty's Treasury Your Lordship's letter of the
1st ultimo (W.148369. Secret) and Sir W. Langley's
letter of the 28th ultimo (W.167563/16) further
respecting the Arab Bureau at Cairo.
Viscount Grey of Fallodon does not consider
that India can be asked to share the cost of the
Bureau nor is he prepared, for political reasons, at
present to ask for a contribution towards the cost from
the Egyptian Government.
On the other hand My Lords presume that no
charge will he made against imperial funds in respect
of the assistance which it is proposed that the
Egyptian Government shall render in the matter of
accommodation, furniture, offices, &c., and also that
the salaries of officers lent or attached oy the
Egyptian and Indian Governments will continue to be
borne on the funds administered by those Governments.
Similarly British Navy or Army Officers attached will
continue to receive their Navy or Army pay.
On the understanding that the questions of
the permanent establishment of the Bureau and of the
ultimate division of the cost of its maintenance, if
it should be decided to retain it, oetween Egyptian
and imperial funds are left open for consideration at
the
The Under secretary of State,
Foreign office.
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The papers concern the establishment and work of the Arab Bureau at Cairo, a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department, which was set up to co-ordinate Arabian and Islamic intelligence in the face of German and Turkish propaganda, which had been making rapid headway in the region during the First World War (1914-18). The papers record the organisation and establishment of the Arab Bureau, and include tributes to the work of Arthur Brownlow fforde (the Government of India representative on the staff of the Arab Bureau) and Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (Corresponding Officer for Mesopotamia).
The principal correspondents are the Viceroy of India; Arthur Brownlow fforde; and senior officials of 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. , the Foreign Office, and the Government of India.
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