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File 4744/1915 Pt 1 'German War - Arabia. The Arab Bureau at Cairo' [132r] (173/384)
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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From Viceroy, VMh April 1916 .
Seciot. Gei mans cin<( Islo.ni. Reference to your telegrams of 7th, 14th
and 15tli Apul. Reuter s telegrams on this subject have been quoted in and
commented on by Pi ess generally, and no further action seems necessary.
AVe are somewhat diffident as to effect of these publications which can only
serve to excite religious feeling and thereby possibly reinforce pro Turkish
sentiment.
Amir will doubtless see notices in “ Pioneer,” and it would be both
unnecessary and impolitic to call his attention specially to matter. There is
no real pro-German feeling in Kabul. Hostile element is rather pro-
Turkish and acutely sensitive regarding Islam, any insult to which, by
Germans, is liable to react on Christian powers generally. Our policy has
been throughout to refrain from giving prominence to reports which might
excite ira religiosa. We should like a few copies of photographic circular
for our information but do not propose to publish them unless this should
hereafter appear desirable.
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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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- File 4744/1915 Pt 1 'German War - Arabia. The Arab Bureau at Cairo'
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- 46r:128v, 132r:136v, 138r:181v, 186r:237v
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