File 4613/1919 Pt 7 'Mesopotamia: Land for Military Cantonments' [130r] (73/135)
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a. I*m Ii«w W&VK aooordIn^Xy bf?low
Bk.3ED&D to be connected by a bridge of boats worked by Army
droops Bridging fraln.
(a I At HXBAXB2 v where embankment a to s Much leaser
degree already existed auffioiently to protect from
flood and lafcere land was very cheap, available for
a Cavalry Brigade, certain amy fr<K>p 0 and depots.
Already in occupation is part of the Advanced Base.
Gtood training ground near. 10 ailea below Baghdad,
(b) At BAliUt opposite HZBAXB2 with four miles of
river front facing the sum?’.er breeae. Bood training
ground, almost above high flood level, cheaper than
CHaii&mX S miles be low BaOHUAB. a site far
pleasanter and cooler than any others In vicinity.
fo accomodate a Bivieion leas one Brigade, all
schools and Central Ordm nee and Bmp ply depot.
9 . I 1 he questi on of water supply was governed by the
fact that over 110,000 droops have drunk the filtered Tigris
Water for %i y^ars in this vicinity without injury, and that
water could be brought from above KA&JuJIAIh (IB miles) above
and all its suburbs, or from the Mala (6 miles) at
some future period.
10 . The sites were found particularly healthy and free
from malaria.
11 . Those facts were © om iUnieated to you In the followfc
telegrams:- (1 of 5th dune 1919 and * 3E08 of E 8 th duly
1919.
IB. In my telegram number i 495 of 14th September 1919,
I informed you that the coat of BAU 1 U about ten square miles
would be at worst £500,000 end probably loss, and at HlfUIBX
f! 3 B />00 for about five square miles and I urged, that tno qe
sites would cost far more in a year or so, tw they can now b
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This item consists of part seven of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to arrangements for a proposed British military cantonment in the vicinity of Baghdad.
The correspondence discusses the selection and purchase of suitable land, particularly the question of whether the land should be purchased by the British civil administration or by the War Office. Also discussed more generally is the provision of barrack accommodation in Mesopotamia and Palestine.
Correspondents include the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson), the Secretary of State for India (Edwin Samuel Montagu), the Commander-in-Chief of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (Major-General George Fletcher MacMunn in an officiating capacity, succeeded by General James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane), and officials of the Foreign Office, 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 War Office, and the Treasury.
Included with this part is a plan showing the present and proposed railway layout for Baghdad.
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