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1 War Diary (0).
. APPENDIX 364.
DIARY No. 93362.
Word code telegram No. 93362-A. G., dated 21st November 1918.
(Despatched 5-15 p.m.)
Prom—The Chief of the General Staff, Simla,
To—The G. O. C., Porce “ D,” Baghdad.
Your telegram, dated Slat October 1918, No. A.-9343 (Diary No. 88656).
No objection. Corps will be re-designated 148th (Burma) Jail Labour
Corps.
llecord copy to A. G.
Copy to M. S. C., Q. M. G., G. S. (S. D. 1, S. B. 3).
APPENDIX 365.
DIARY No 93366.
Telegram P., No. Nil, dated 8th November 1918.
(Despatched 9-30 p.m. ; received 7 a.m., 19th November 1918.)
Prom—H. M/s Secretary of State for India, London,
To—H. E. the Viceroy (P. & P. Department), Delhi.
(Repeated Baghdad.)
Clear the lin°.
A proposal for dealing comprehensively with the Arab qu stion has been
submitted to H. M’s Government; by Colonel Lawrence who is now home on
leave from Syria.
In it the formation of three separate Arab States outside the Hedjnz and
its dependencies is advocated : (I) Lower Mesopotamia, (II) Upper Mesopo
tamia, and (III) Syria, to be ptaced under Abdulla, Zeid and Feisal, sons of
King Husain, respectively. King Husain, who would remain King of Hedjaz
and be ultimately succeeded by his eldest son Ali, would have no temporal
authority in these three States, nor indeed any position at all there beyond
insertion of his name as Emir-el-Momenin in Eriday prayers in all mosques.
It is suggested by Lawrence that the boundaries between Upper and Lower
Mesopotamia should run from confluence of Tigris and Zab to Ana on Eu
phrates, thence to Buijik, the Euphrates forming the boundary of Upper Meso
potamia in the west, while the northern boundary would lie through Urfa
and Diabekir to the Tigris. Its capital would be Mosul or Ras-el-Ain. Both
States would of coure be in the British sphere, and Lower Mesopotamia would
be under effective British control. It is recognised that these proposals,
involving as they would a definite separation of Mosul from Baghdad, con
flict with the recommendation in Baghdad telegram No. 8745 (Diary
No. 84061), though the proposed inter-statal boundary is not apparently
inconsistent with that suggested in Baghdad telegram No. 8754 (Diary
No. 83470). It is also recognised that it would be in direct opposition to the
views expressed by Cox in April last to import Abdulla into Mesopotamia. I
should be glad, however, if you would review the whole question in the light
of existing conditions and let me have your views, wdth as little delay as
possible, on Lawrence’s proposals.
Working copy to G, S. (M. O. 1).
Copy to M. S. C., G. S. (M. O. 3).