ملف رقم ٣١٤٢ لسنة ١٩٠٣ "سكة حديد الحجاز" [و‎‎١‎٩‎٢] (٤٨٨/٣٩٢)

ASIATIC TURKEY.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir N. O'Conor to the Marquess of Lansdowne.
(No. 520.)
My Lord, Constantino’ple, November 29, 1902.
WITH reference to my despatch. No. 495 of the 8th instant, I have the honour
to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a despatch received from His
Majesty’s Consul-General at Beirut reporting changes of officials effected hy
Mouzaffer Pasha, the new Governor-General of the Lebanon.
I have, &c.
(Signed) N. R. O’CONOR.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Consul-General Drummond Hay to Sir N. O’Conor.
(No. 147.)
gj r Beirut, November 20, 1902.
' * WITH reference to my despatch No. 140 of the 5th instant, I have the honour
to inform your Excellency that Mouzaffer Pasha returned here on the 13th from his
tour in the Shouf, and immediately after his arrival dismissed the Druse Kaimakam,
Emir Shekib Arslan, who was hastily appointed by Naoum Pasha last summer
on the resignation of Emir Mustapha Arslan, as reported in my despatch No. 103 of
the 15th August last. He also removed from office two Mudirs for disobedience to
orders regarding political demonstrations during his tour.
A Druse member of the Council of Administration, Hamad Bey Harnady, was
anpointed Acting Kaimakam in the place of Emir Shekib.
x The latter and his uncle, the ex-Kaimakam, have, I understand, appealed to the
Sheikh-ul-Islam for protection as loyal “Moslem” subjects of the Sultan and
he 0 ’ 0 ’in 0, him to interfere on their behalf and to rescue the Druse districts from falling
under foreign influence hy preventing the appointment of a Kaimakam from the
Djumhlak family, who are represented hy the petitioners as being agents ot British
and traitors to the Government. ™ ,
A Memorial was also forwarded to the Mushir at Damascus containing about
fiftv seals, with several names of distinguished Moslem families who have no con
nection whatever with the Lebanon, and I am informed on good authority that many
of the seals are spurious. , , , ,
Mouzaffer Pasha is well aware of these proceedings and has taken eftecinve
measures to check the agitation and preserve order in the Druse districts His
Excellency will start again about the 23rd instant for the central Kaimakamliks of
Meten and Zahleh. *
I IlHVP OuC.
(Signed) C ’ R. DRUMMOND HAY.
No. 2.
Sir N. O’Conor to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received December 8.)
(No. 521 Confidential.) Constantinople, November 29, 1902.
1 ^ ^HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith copy of a despatch
from His Majesty’s Consul at Damascus, respecting Turkish surmises as to the rea
political objects of the Hedjaz Railway. ^
(Signed) N. R. O’CONOR.
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