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'PAPERS RELATING TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN COMMISSION from SIR E. BARROW'S ROOM' [324r] (655/1386)
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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^ to o.e a pro cl'. The Uuilae >ur/e sug^ewted to Kabul
that eoTae regular betterieB ebould deolaro tiioajselvea
rjutlnoue and oorae to the Bat*r Valley.
Xelfit &J£ehra$ti- Ibo trouble zt Turap (see Ko 16) seemed
to be subsiding on lOtb Oct. B«hr&m Khan having retired
across th^> boraor. Various measures in aid of the Naslm
by way of ana?® and money wnre proposed by the lovemnent
of India.
Afghanistan. The Agent reports (ibth Augt) a notaworthy spoeca by
the Haib-ue-Sultanat to t)ie lAirbaris at the Id. He made
an approiation of the situation in Europe and elsewhere
at the time and gave hie oxhlnion as to the reasons wh^
the Or or iijtny had mA'Uhm'bri hitherto shown superdcrity ovor
the Allies. Amongst other things snob as their greater
preparedness and concentration oi effort ne nientroucc
the Velsh Miners strike as ovidonor, of the British want
of unity. As to the Dardanelles he stated that he did
not believe that the Alldes would g«t through but that
it had been a fiae unuortakiing to try .though a HerouleJl
one, for they hb.d kept Turks engaged v.ho would otherwise
have occupied Egypt and endangered Centra.! Asia and later
India, fie /ia6e aoiii© appreoiativo QOimwx& oil the taotios
of the European Armies ae compared with theae of the
Afghans and he state! that the Austrian* and ^urke were
roe re cyphers the Germans sione fighting the ^?„li©s.
It was oomsonly stated at Jellalabad that Pardar TJas-
rullah Khan vvas at the bottom of the whole Mohmand
trouble and that he hid assisted the Chaknav/ar Mulla and
others with arms and araaunition. In this connection e
reliable report (?5th Hep) stated that 400 rifles wore
sent some time ago from Afghanistan for the uoe of the
Haji of Turangsai. Tiiey were two — — «
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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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- IOR/L/MIL/5/768
- 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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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