File 705/1916 Pt 1 'Arab revolt: reports' [‎336r] (219/494)

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of his sons; his four ( which he expressed recently to Cairo ) that
Uie lurks in Uyria have discovered his plans, which nay have made
hfo believe that he has forfeited iurkish confidence in any event,
and, probably are than all, the results of the blockade, which,
from a letter dated Itith hay are proved to have been ^mediate and
considerable.
Ihe * strict patrol * ( a tens substituted for the original
name * blockade * to which there were political objections )
into fbll force on the 15th May. irop&ratory aeaeures had been
taken before that date. I hows en the sea had been turned buck
with earnings, sailings of dhewe from i^pt and the uoudan had been
forbidden, and, though for political reasons a fonsal proclasation
of a "blockade* was net naide, inforwal earnings eers disseminatsd
bread cast to the fellswing effect.
• A y. ar a 03 Ureat Britain, aleays the friend of lel«, eae
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