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'PAPERS RELATING TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN COMMISSION from SIR E. BARROW'S ROOM' [131r] (262/1386)
The record is made up of 1 file (687 folios). It was created in 1915-1918. 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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r
( 10 )
intimating that he would stand by him and the British
^ Government in the event of war.
From Viceroy dy/ The Consul at Muhammerah reported on the 22nd Octr that
25th Octr. , ^ . .
Sayid Talib ( who is described in the Plan of Operations
as "apparently unscrupulous and probably mercenary")
had received an invitation from Enver
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to go to
Constantinople and that he proposed to accept this unless
thinking any such enterprise was undesirable, had
authorised negotiations on certain lines which had al
ready been approved. (fr K. fiypt A J
W.O.Diary. On the 24th Octr the Consul at Aleppo reported that Major
Omar Fevzi Bey had altered the plans mentioned in Sir
L.Mallet's telegram of -die 17th Octr and that, instead
of going to Ibn-el-Reschid, he now intended to visit
Ibn Saud, accompanied by a German, and get him to attack
his enemy Sheikh Ibn Shah thus uniting all the tribes
in the Basra region on the dide of Turkey and Germany.
The Consul also said that the Arabs to the north and
east of Rakka had been asked by the south Arabian Sheikhs
to send arms, horses and men to the wast of the Euphrates.
Ibn-el-Reschid, who had evaded a request by the Ottomqn
Government to supply troops, had been appointed Comman
der of the whole of Uejd.
White Paper His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople was instructed
Miscl.Ho 13,
(1914) Ho 166 on the 24th Octr to warn the Grand Vizier that any mili-
dy/ 24th Oct.
tary violation of the Egyptian frontier, which appeared
to be then contemplated, would place Turkey in a state of
war with the three allied Powers.
Tel to Viceroy, Secretary of State, on the 26th, desired that the
(P.),dy/26th ^’
Octr. Arabs of Muhammerah,Kuweit, Basra and elsewhere might
be informed of the arrival of the Force at Bahrein /M?
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This file contains working drafts of confidential prints, correspondence and telegrams from the room of Sir Edmund Barrow, Military Secretary in 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. , collected for the Mesopotamian Commission which was convened to examine the causes of the besieging and surrender of the Indian Expeditionary Force in Kut-el-Amara [Al Kūt].
The papers cover a range of topics and include the following: General Townshend's assessment of the situation after the Battle of Kut-el-Amara; a précis of correspondence relating to the origins and development of the Mesopotamia expedition; and a collection (ff 396-399) of private telegrams between the Secretary of State for India and the Viceroy, prior to the outbreak of war with Turkey.
The file also includes some tables showing the strength of General Townshend's force at Ctesiphon (folio 111) as well as the Indian Expeditionary Force 'D' (In Mesopotamia) Troops of the 6th Poona Division (folio 114).
Correspondents include: General Sir John Nixon; Major-General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend; the Viceroy of India; officials of the Admiralty; officials of the War Office.
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- 1 file (687 folios)
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The entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 686; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Multiple additional mixed foliation/pagination sequences are present in parallel; these numbers are written in crayon and pencil; where they are written in pencil and circled, they are crossed through.
The file has one foliation anomaly, f 374A.
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- Title
- 'PAPERS RELATING TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN COMMISSION from SIR E. BARROW'S ROOM'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:89v, 91r:107v, 109r:130v, 131ar, 131r:134v, 135ar, 135ar, 135r:136v, 137ar, 137r:203v, 204ar, 204r:225r, 225ar, 225v:295v, 296ar, 296r:316v, 317ar, 317r:374v, 374ar:374av, 375r:405v, 406ar, 406r:562r, 562ar, 562v:623v, 624ar, 624r:686v, back
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