File 705/1916 Pt 2 'Arab revolt: Arab reports; Sir M Sykes' reports' [‎171r] (339/450)

SECRET.
, appreciation of
ATTACHED ARAB REPORT No. VI Series).
THIS report Is somewhat large,
accumulated. As far as actual e'™ ts ao .. inasmuch as Kuri Bey-es-Shaalan is
regard to the Shenf s operations is encou that the nort hern Bedavvm of the
reported to have taken the field. h f the poss ibility of cutting the railway
Svrian desert are coming m, which gives hope oi t p
between Ma’an and Damascus d Idr i s ; se ems to be in a fair way
The complicated question between the SW and W to tlme ; this kind of
towards settlement but we must expect to J.ear^ oi^it^^
problem tends to hibernate in per mission it has been suggested at the Hu ugn
1 With regard to the proposed ”ny with the Sacred Carpet. This would
Office that the mission “hght procee.^ J ^ stamped as a purely religious one ^
seem an ideal solution, as , . vin-j„ nmiortiniity for comment. ,
concerned with the pilgrimage and give 11 tI e situation is recommended
Colonel Grey’s memorandum the ^ in Gulf politics
for careful reading. It gives tbe^w« of “office, ^ g ^ that ^ do not
au d of long acquaintanceship with Gu , ;;1 sla fj- ; n the Gulf; as matters stand
net mo e contributions of the kmd from the pohtical sta w ; th the result that
fe -et much from Cairo and Aden and htt e M ; ss Bell, m Mesopo-
the'Arab point of view in^hose P dr ^ Bahrein, and Muscat could give us moie
tamia and the pohtical officers at y from Basra . ,
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