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'PAPERS RELATING TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN COMMISSION from SIR E. BARROW'S ROOM' [351r] (709/1386)
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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Ro 6 dated
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.
13th August 1915.
(Information from India dated 3rd July unless otherwise
stated)*
Frontier.
Afghanistan
_Ba jau r fe F.m t: - flo sign of trouble in 3ajaur and fill las
quiet. Wovoablo Column still at Chakdarra. Upper Svrat
jirgas say they will come in and talk to the Political Offr
HP.v.v.ffl'?ili.- Chaknawar r^LHa has apparently abandoned
his proposed joiirney to Kabul.
hilAlil '-"" allowance holders on return from Kabulc
report that they received their allcvaneos and all arrears
with most unusual promptitude. They mam were not seen by
the Anir and Tardar Nasrullah Khan liad but little to say
to £hera. In the course of a conversation in the
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
room
an official enquired about the Chabkadar Ohaza and sug
gested that the Afridis were/ not so foolish as to under
take a holy war after receiving double allowances. The
A^ridis replied that t ey were true SSuosalmen who held
their religion dearer than money hut they could see no use
in disjointed affairs; that they eculd conquer India as
for ae the Indus but no good could be derived without the
co-operation of the King of Islam. Disunited action was
useless especially to the Afridis who had 4,000 villages
in the plains.
They al^o reported that at a Nutans Ptate Council held
some timo ago it was aeoidefl that Afghanistan was incapa-
t)j.e oi the offensive ant! mast adhere to a defensive atti
tude aenMniit against any aggression. They said too that
the Kabul newspaper (SeraJ-ul-Akhbar) was oorefully cen
sored and that there was no excitement in Kabul and no
news of Turkish armies.
(see also under , Desertions/f
Herat reports ( E7th Kay) that a Turkish and a Genman Gen
eral are said to be enroute to Kabul via Sistan to per-
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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)
- Arrangement
The entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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