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File 2100/1916 Pt 3 'German War: Arab revolt; Muslim feeling etc' [209r] (23/604)
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Printed for the use of the Cabinet. August 1916.
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^CONFIDENTIAL.
[159470]
MR. CUMBERBATCH, formerly His Majesty’s consul-general at Beirout, brought
Dr. Hoskyns, head of the American Mission there, to see me yesterday.
Dr. Hoskyns left Beirout on 29th June last. His description of the situation was
appalling, and confirms all our reports : the people of the Lebanon and the Syrian
Moslems subjected to an absolutely ruthless reign of terror, since eight months ago,
and being starved to death. A conservative estimate was 80,000 in the Lebanon killed
in this way when Dr. Hoskyns left, and the rate of deaths was growing by geometrical
progression.
All the leading men deported, hanged, or in exile, with their properties confiscated
and their relations in the hands of the Turks. Dr. Hoskyns attributed some 100 death
sentences to the information found by the Turks in the archives of the French
consulate, and said that local feeling, hitherto ardently pro-French, had received a
shock such as to destroy all faith and trust in France. Between Damascus, Beirout,
and the Lebanon the Turkish forces are estimated at from 30,000 to 50,000.
I asked Dr. Hoskyns what practical measures of relief there were for these
wretched people, and he ha.d to confess that really there w r ere none, short of a successful
advance from Mesopotamia or Mecca, or an expedition from Beyrout or Alexandretta,
and the Turks had made elaborate preparations against the latter contingency.
Dr. Hoskyns, his wife, and two daughters suffered most unpleasant indignities
when crossing from Germany into Denmark, and generally had the experiences of
neutral travellers. He said the most serious want of all in Germany was lack of milk.
Two young invalided German officers travelled with him in the “ Balkan-Zug.” They
told him it was useless their going home for a cure: they had had dysentery, and
needed a milk diet, but could not get it, as there were no children in their families.
G. R. C.
Foreign Office, August 11, 1916.
An authentic and terrible picture of the situation in Syria only a fortnight ago.
H.
[966]
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Part 3 consists of telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the British-backed revolt of the Sherif of Mecca against Turkish rule during the course of the First World War. The papers tell of the British response to the situation covering the following matters:
- the pledge given by the Entente Powers in regard to the Holy Places
- British bombardment of Ottoman forces in Jeddah at the request of the Sherif of Mecca (Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī)
- the Government of India's wish that news of the British naval activity off Jeddah be suppressed
- British military support and provision of food supplies
- publication of news of the Turkish bombardment of the Ka'aba
- the effect of the news of conflict in the Holy Places on Muslim opinion in India, Afghanistan, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Singapore, the Malay States, and Java
The discussion over such matters is mostly between the Foreign Office, 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. , War Office, and the Government of India.
Included (ff 323-335) is a memorandum on the situation by Major-General Charles Herbert Powell with commentary by Professor David Samuel Margoliouth, University of Oxford, and with further comments from Douglas Carruthers, Royal Geographical Society.
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