ملف ٣٤٤٣\ ١٩١٤ الجزء ٤ "بلاد فارس: شؤون شرق بلاد فارس؛ عملاء ألمان" [و‎‎١‎٧] (٣٦٨/٣٨)

have been puffed up with the idea of a pan-Islamic conquest of
the world, from Spain to China, and from Constantinople to
Java, This idea has been started by the Indian Mohammedans
in Turkey, who were however considered by the Germans to be of
little consequence.
The Turks are anxious to enlist the sympathy of
Mohammedans in India, and are even willing to make grants of
land in Mesopotamia to the extent of fifty acres per man and
monetary assistance.
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Baron Wesendonk further told me that the Germans thought
nothing of the Arab revolt, as the present Sheikh-ul-Islam is
pro-German, and has issued a fatwa. creating a new Sheriff of
Mecca, also that, -
Owing to the threatened rupture of relations between
Germany and Turkey, and in order to counteract the anti-German
influences at Constantinople, especially the headstrong policy
of ENVER PASHA, it was very necessary to have a really
influential Mohammedan from India. He then asked me if I
knew such a person, to whom they were very willing to give a
subsidy, or even landed property in Turkey if they could get
the right class of man, so that he could influence the Turkish
high officials in favour of Germany. I said that I would try.
Baron Wesendonk said that he must be a man of a prominent
family, who had already taken some part in the national
political life. He asked me if I thought the Hon. Mr.JINNAH
would be of any use. I replied that he would not be of very
much use, because he was a follower of the Aga Khan. Jinnah’s
brother is now in Zurich, and they are very keen to smuggle
him into Germany. They told me that if I could get such a man
I was to bring him back to London first in order to disarm
suspicion, and then smuggle him through France into Switzerland
and