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File 53/1915 Part IV 'German War: Turkey; Caliphate etc' [201r] (398/481)
The record is made up of 1 item (242 folios). It was created in 1915-1916. 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, dated the 9th (received 10th) December 1915.
From—The High Commissioner, Egypt, Cairo,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart -
ment, Delhi.
Your telegram* dated 8th December. (Telegram of ?) 11th November
_ 874, from the Foreign Office does not
* o t -,;.abu. sor contain any such injunction.
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No. H.-9718, dated Delhi, the 11th December 1915.
Endorsed by the Army Department.
A copy of the undermentioned paper is forwarded to the Foreign and ^
Political Department.
Telegram No. E. R.-277, dated the 9th December 1915, from the General Officer Command-
ing, Egypt, Cairo, to the Commander-in-Chief in India.
Enclo. to Serial No. 38.
Telegram P, No. E. R.-277, dated the 9th December 1915.
From—The General Officer Commanding, Egypt, Cairo,
To—The Commander-in-Chief in India, Delhi.
The following is the result of interrogatories, made to a Turkish officer who
was captured on December 5th in the Fed Sea, of which please inform
Mesopotamia.
Lieutenant Ghalib-Ibn Jabir.
When asked about the Sheriff he appeared at first slightly uncomfortable,
but he at length said that as a result of the war the Sheriff had acquired many
privileges.
He said that the tribes between that (of) Sheriff and of Idrisi were now
all in the hands of the former ; they were considered to be fairly armed and are
reckoned as fine fighting men and to be fanatical.
"When asked what would be the result in a fight between the Yali and the
Sheriff he replied that the Sheriff would most certainly win. As regards the
attitude which the Arab troops in Hedjaz and Assir in such an event
would be, he said “ They are Arabs.” It is not improbable that there may
have been some such difficulty in his own case.
He stated that the Sheriff has now independent jurisdiction over the whole
of Ashraf, who can make no appeal to the Turks from his sentences. He
possesses his own Gendarme Fifles who take up the entire country between
Ibha and Taif Bisha.
In the event of an order being received from Constantinople it is taken
to the Sheriff by the Vali. The former then consults his (Ministry ?) as to
whether the order conforms with the tribal law ; and only if it does so is it
enforced. .
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Telegram P., dated the 10th (received 11th) December 1915.
From—His Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, London,
rpo His Excellency the Viceroy (loreign and Political Department!, Delhi.
It is proposed in order to combat highly organised German-Turkish
iiropao'anda which is making rapid headway to co-ordinate our Islamic and
Arabian intelligence by establishment at Cairo of bureau under general orders
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Part 4 consists of correspondence relating to the possible declaration of a caliphate in Arabia and is a continuation of part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/525/1). The papers tell of the British assessment of the situation and the French attitude, as well as correspondence and negotiations with Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, the Grand Sharif of Mecca. The file also discusses the British view of the proposed blockade of the Arabian ports in the Red Sea.
The file also includes a printed document (ff 25-242) marked 'secret' entitled 'Policy in the Middle East', which consists mainly of communications on the military situation in Mespotamia from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes to the Director of Military Information.
The discussion over such matters is mostly between Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, the General Officer Commanding, Egypt, and the Commander-in-Chief, India.
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