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'Blue Book. Paraphrased telegrams' [8r] (15/189)
The record is made up of 1 file (93 folios). It was created in 1914-1916. 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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As it appoers that owing to difficulties of navigation* there
is now little chenoe of overtaking and breaking up the retreat*
-ing ?urk 8 # there is no object in pursuing them any further
and bo under these circumstances I shall be glad to learn what
are liiaron’s present intentions* Subject to what may occur
in Bagdad and elsewhere and to any propoaal you may now racom-
-mend* the orders which my telegrams of April £4th and August
6 th conveyed to you are still In force* Kindly eend me by
telegram an estimate of what you consider to be the present
strength In Mesopotamia of the enemy*
Ko 181.
By moving troops with land transport and by lightening river
steamers and ue$ng them as tugs for loaded barges we have got
over troubles of navigation*.Turk’s retreat appears to
have stopped and they have taken up a position at Cteslphon
and are thus a menace to this force. I have received infor-
-raation that the rurks considered the position at Kut-el-AmaM
impregnable and so their troops* especia'ily th se recruited
locally* are much demoralized by their defeat there.
tfur« 0 d-Dln v s foree is now so close to Bagdad and, as those of
his troops who are near their homes will probably want to
desefct* he will find difficulty in making a determined
stand* !?herefore my opinion is that* as soon as the concen-
-taation at Assiziyah of the 6 th Divn is completed and the
cavalry has been reinforce by drafts now en route from Basra
there is every chance of overtaking the rurks at Ctesiphon
and smashing them. On the contrary* should we retire to
Eut~el-Amara from Aziziyah|the tribes and the eruamy will again
advance on Kut-el-Amara as they will put their own construe-
-tlon on our movement* »•••»«••*•• rhese tribes now look on
us as resistless and have been again arriving from everywhere
to submit their allegiance. If however we fall back they wilt
probably repeat their previous behaviour.
My opinion is that having before us an enemy shaken
by defeat who is short of ammunition and haa lost 13 guns*
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The file consists of proofs for a proposed Mesopotamia Blue Book [a British Parliamentary official report concerning the Mesopotamian Campaign, 1914-18]. The papers consist of numbered transcribed paraphrased and unparaphrased official telegrams (particularly from the Commander of the Expeditionary Force, 1915-16, General Sir John Eccles Nixon, the Viceroy, and the Secretary of State for India) relating to military operations during the advance from Basra in 1915. The proofs were submitted to the Secretary of State for India, and include notes by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, 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. .
The papers are enclosed an a folder inscribed: 'Military Department. Previous Papers' and labelled '2'.
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- 1 file (93 folios)
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The transcribed telegrams are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 94; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Two additional typed mixed foliation/pagination sequences are also present in parallel between ff 15-19 and ff 27-37.
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- IOR/L/MIL/5/776
- Title
- 'Blue Book. Paraphrased telegrams'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:94v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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