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File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’ [99r] (202/256)
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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uQ have instructed our troops and. those Egyptians who
join them that they should attack the subjects of
those i-owers now fighting El-Islam and the Power of
the Grand Khalifat - take hold of all their
possessions - money, properties and furnitures and to
pursue and kill them wherever they find them. But
neither you nor our troops should kill an infant v a
woman or an old man or a monk who secludes himself for
the worship of God. And he of them, who gives up his
arms to you, you should not kill but take as prisoner
until the war is over.
All the booty you take shall be yours and shall
be distributed amongst you by the senior officers who
are commanding our troops in accordance with the
Mohammedan law, some as did our Prophet in his con
quests.
Should any of the Moslems help your enemies
against you, or should he reveal to them any of your
secrets, he should be treated as a spy and a traitor.
ue are still in war with the Italians who have
transgressed on us and no peace or truce has yet been
concluded with them. Therefore, and as they have
treacherously declared war on the grand Khalifat, in
order to please the English, the French and the
Russians, the lives, properties and furniture of
Italians also in Egypt, are your own property and the
property of those Egyptian heroes who join our troops.
All other inhabitants of Egypt ought not to be
molested, and he who molests any of them will be
acting against our wish and order and the will of uod
and prophets.
This is a proclamation to all Moslems in
Egypt and the Sudan and an order to the fighting
heroes of the Jehad, from the ’’Senoussi Family*.
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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
- 102r:115v, 87r:99v
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