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File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’ [50r] (104/256)
The record is made up of 1 volume (124 folios). It was created in 9 Nov 1914-30 Mar 1918. It was written in English and French. 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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5 . During June, July and August, quite a number of
Austrian and German guns and gunners arrived at OQHSTAHTIJfOPIE
and were thence sent by steamer to PAHDKKMA. Informant
himself saw at least 30 guns, ranging in size from 6 inch
long ^uns to 8 and 10 inoh Howitzers, Ho /runs have passed
through OOH9TANTIHOPLE since the 1st of September.
6 # Ammunition, motor-lorries, wagons, war material and
Red Cross supplies are coming through to 002 ;STAHTIKQPX£ daily
at the rate of on© or two trains of fifteen and eighteen
wagons each, per day,
300 wagons of chrome ore which were brought over
from PANDFRMA and intended for Germany, have been stopped by
the lurks at the frontier and not allowed to go out of the
country.
Coal of a very poor quality and in small
quantities Is being exported to COHSW-HTWOPIE from the SIX HA
district via PAHDKJ.MA., ZUNGUIDAIC (Black Sea). Coal la being
Imported at the rate of about two steamers per week, steamers
of 2/3000 tons, the prioe of this is £8 per ton ex quay.
9 . A good many of the British prisoners are being used
on the BAOBAB railway: particularly is this the case with
mechanics and submarine crews,
10 . 1'here are now-not more than 2/3000 German and
Austrian troops, all told, in and around CONSTANTINOPLE.
There were more some months ago, Especially wm this the case
with officers. Three months ago, most of the officers were
recalled and went back to Germany and Austria.
11. The "GOFBEN" is generally considered "hors de
combat". She has quite lost her speed, her boilers are badly
worn, several of her runs are said to be useless, and she has
never been properly repaired after she struck a mine at the
entrance of the Black Sea end of the Bosphcrus. The "BIXSL1U"
still continues to scout In the Black Sea. and can do 22 to
12 .
£3 knots.
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- Content
Papers concerning Britain’s declaration of Egypt as a British Protectorate in November 1914. The volume includes:
- Correspondence relating to Britain’s annexation of Cyprus in November 1914, and the status of Cypriots and Egyptians in Cyprus as British subjects (ff 120-125).
- Papers concerning the status of Egyptians as British subjects (ff 116-119, ff 78-83), including Foreign Office guidance on the new Egyptian Nationality Law, dated 9 June 1915 (f 83).
- Copies of two proclamations (undated, both translations in English) addressed to the ‘People of Egypt’ (ff 102-115, ff 87-99), one of which claims to have been authored by the Senoussi [Senussi]. The proclamations are responses to Britain’s declaration of Egypt as a British protectorate.
- Translated documents taken from prisoners on patrols of the Bir Mahadat [Bi’r al Mahdāt], which are anti-British in rhetoric (ff 73-77).
- A copy of an intercepted letter (in French), dated 26 December 1915, addressed to Mohammed Farid Bey [Muḥammad Farīd], and presumed by British intelligence officials to have been written by Abdul Aziz Shawish [‘Abd al-‘Azīz Shāwīsh] (ff 61-65).
- Secret reports from MI1 (Military Intelligence, Section 1), reporting intelligence relating to Egypt, Turkey and Germany (ff 47-58).
- Papers reporting on the movements and actions in 1917 of the ex-Khedive of Egypt [‘Abbās Ḥilmī Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ], including his relations with Turkish officials (ff 5-36).
The volume’s principal correspondents are: the British Ambassador at Berne, Switzerland (Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff, Horace George Montagu Rumbold); the Foreign Office (chiefly Ralph Spencer Paget); the 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. (Arthur Hirtzel, John Evelyn Shuckburgh).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (124 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 3136 (German War) consists of 6 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/462-467. The volumes are divided into 6 parts, with each part comprising one volume. The part numbers are: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7. There is no part 3.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 126; 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.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/467
- Title
- File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:10v, 15r:55v, 58r:61v, 66r:72v, 78r:86v, 100r:101v, 116r:125v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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