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File 4744/1915 Pt 1 'German War - Arabia. The Arab Bureau at Cairo' [146r] (201/384)
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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Telegram from Viceroy, EfiM Forei^^jartaient
Dated 20th June, 1916. |
'
Secret* Arab Bureau. Your telegram of the 14th June,
After experience of past few months think procedure
would be simplified and better co-ordination secured, if, so
far as India Mesopotamia and Aden are concerned, functions of
Arab Bureau were confined to original scope contemplated viz:
collection and distribution of AraJa intelligence and suggestion,
of propaganda to be used or not as we think best. To make
Arab Bureau mouthpiece of policy and principles of His Majesty
Government in regard to Arab questions appears to us after
our experience unsuitable. We never know the authority
behind their communications and we should prefer to receive
important orders of this kind either from /ourself or from
High Commissioner, Cairo, who would indicate previous approval
of His Majesty’s Government.
Addressed to Secretary of State and repeated to G.O.C.,
Force "D M and Cairo as 304 S*
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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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