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ARABIAN REPORT.
N.S. No. IX. September 13, 1916 (night).
Contents.
PART I.
The Sherif of Mecca.
Shaykh Hussein of Rabegh.
The Haj.
French Mission to the Sherif.
French help for the Sherif.
Opinion in Somaliland.
I bn Sand.
Ibn Rashid.
Maskat.
Koweyt and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. -.
Bahrein.
PART II.
Political Events in the Fields of Operations.
The Caucasus.
Aden.
PART III.
Miscellaneous.
Turkish Propaganda in Abyssinia.
A French Armenian Corps.
Moslems in Java.
Enemy War Council.
APPENDIX.
Letter from the “ Times of India” on “ Claims and
Conduct of the Turks.”
PART I.
THE SHERIF OF MECCA.
Shaykh Hussein of Rabegh.
SIR H. McMAHON telegraphed on the 8th September [No. 763] that Colonel
Wilson had reported on the 7th September that Shaykh Hussein had written to Zeid
stating that he was arriving at Quadimah on the 8th : he had also declared his
loyalty to the Sherif.
On the 9th September he telegraphed [No. 769] that Colonel Wilson had that
day reported that the situation was entirely satisfactory : Shaykh Hussein and his
followers had sworn allegiance to the Sherif. Colonel VV ilson was proceeding to
Yambo.
The Haj.
Sir H. McMahon telegraphed on the 9th September [No. 769] that Colonel
Wilson had expressed the opinion that the pilgrimage should not be stopped.
Among some notes “ compiled from letters received from Albanian friends now in
Switzerland,” furnished by the Foreign Office, the following^ passage occurs in regard
to the Committee of Union and Progress : 44 They are terrified at the idea that the
approaching pilgrimage may be attended only by subjects of the Entente Powers under
the auspices of the Gfrand Sherif, without iurkish participation or mention of the
Caliphate of Constantinople. They recognise that this would be a death blow to their
prestige, and would do almost anything to avoid it.”
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French Mission to the Sherif.
Lord Bertie telegraphed on the 5th September [No. 923] that Lord Granville had
been informed by M. Gout that one of the Algerians in the mission to the Sherif was a
fully trained officer of the French artillery, and had been at the front in command of a
battery. The French hoped that he might be kept by the Sherif as a permanent
organiser and instructor.
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