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File 705/1916 Pt 1 'Arab revolt: reports' [405r] (357/494)
The record is made up of 1 item (226 folios). It was created in 1916. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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re tched Jarafra on 9th February, so presumably the expedition
from Siva succeeded in its Quest.
On 6 February the force was still at Siva; the Siva road to
and including Gara was clear.
a day or two later a considerable force was moved from
Siwa to Gara.
On 8th February a large camp, four large guns, four smaller
gins and ten machine guns, were reported at Gara. Mohammed
&&leh was expected to take command shortly, and so great was his
prestige that the choice of advancing to Baharia or to Farafra.
lay entirely with him. This, if true, casts doubt upon the
previous assertion of his demoralisation.
Mohammed Saleh seems on his arrival to have decided upon
**aharia, perhaps in order to join up with another force which was
expected there from liufra about the same date*
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