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(Received wider cover of office memorandum Wo. 2201, dated the 20th Decem
ber 19lo, from Office of Rrivate Secretary to the Viceroy )
The Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. ,
Cairo,
My Lord, November 28th, 1915.
In continuation of my telegram* of the 27th instant, containing a sum-
oil inary of a letter which I have received
cOTvof ^h •'h h ° n0Ur * 1 ° a Uteral tfa^sTaHon o^iharT “teT
I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship’s most obedient, humble servant,
The Right Honourable A HEKRY ^cMAHON.
Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, P.C., G.C.B.,
etc., etc., etc.,
Viceroy of India.
the Most LTirerLdtS 6 JUnlste' Co , m P assion ^' To Eis Excellency
authority and soundness of opinion, may God guide Wmlo do^k WUl lliSheS,
leceived with great pleasure your honoured letterf dated 15 th Zul Hir
t-^.F.Tipin Urn'll ^n. 1,5. (October 24 th, 1915 ) to which I bei> to
, . _ < answer as follows: — °
(1) In oider to facilitate an agreement anrl fn
and at the same time to avoid all that A i semce to I?lam
seeing moreover that we have °rpnt onn U f S - G ^^les and hardships—
ties and dispositions of the Government ofVreat B ‘A 8 dlstm o uisIled q u ali-
insistence on the inclusion of the vilavntc nf , r eat .- Blltain ~*- W e renounce our
Kingdom. But the Tovinces oj EL i f f p Sln ^ Y 3na in the A «b
purely Arab provinces and there is no their sea - co ^sts are
Christian Arab: they are bo,h 3 ^ 3
Omar ibn KhattabY a nd ^CMfs? 0t ® 0 “ mauder of the Faithful-
Laws of the Moslem Eaith that l™’ wl10 ordaine 'l in the
they treat themselves. He, Omt dSed wTfh 'T the C ^istians as
“ they will have the same PriOle-es and submit In t f etereilCe to Chrisliau ^
selves.” They will thus enjovSZie riS in s f me . d “ties as our-
the general interest of the whole nation ° a§ mucil as ac cords svith
r™,^ Kingdom , nd
and in the time of all Khalifs who succeeded l,; 6 I™ 6 i° f Il,n Abu Talib >
civilisation of the Arabs, and as their town ■ ''ll ’ aru as m tbem began the
towns built in Islam where tL Arab ‘owe u 0 . those r ro ^ a ees were the first
provinces are greatly valued bv all Ami/ J ecame s0 great: therefore these
cannot be forgotten^ l y tbcm Contlnneir an ‘ l and tbeir editions
Nations or make them submit to "ive upTch ^iHe t^T tbe Arab
to render and accord easy and HHn“ P i^T ‘, t ?. noblht y- Lut in order
SttSi^ they me one'anciHim SSSS