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File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’ [96r] (196/256)
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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High"? Have you doubted in God's promise and he is
most truthful?
Have you forgotten the terror of Denshwai and
what was done there to the old and young? Have you
forgotten the days when they imprisoned your free and
made them subject to all atrocities?
Wonder! Do you really count 13 millions of
Moslems and you bear to live so lowly, subjugated by
a few thousands of English soldiers? Where is the
dignity of Islam? Where is the religious zeal and
the Arabic enthusiasm? Where are all your historic
deeds?
Have you forgotten the battles you waged
against the Greeks in Mura when your great fleet
supported the Ottomans in Navarin and would have
crushed the enemies, had it not been for the treason
of the European Powers and their fanaticism against
the Islam? Have you forgotten how Europe incited
the barbarous people of Montenegro, Greece, and
Bulgaria to persecute and commit all sorts of
atrocities with the Moslems of Thrace and Macedonia -
and all that was done in the name of the Cross and
Christ, and now they grudge those Moslems the least
amount of equality, declaring that we are lower than
those barbarians and unable to attain their human
ideals and principles?
My brothers! Have you forgotten what befell
your Islam brothers in the Balkans when their
massacred bodies blocked the roads and their blood
flooded the mountains and the plains and their women
fleeing in horror across the plains?
Have you forgotten when they pierced the
pregnant women with their lances, when they dragged
your old men to the scaffold, your young men to the
graves
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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.’
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- 102r:115v, 87r:99v
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