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File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’ [112r] (228/256)
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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plHin. This ^uropsan w^r has revealed that the English
are hopelessly impotent even to defend their own island
and guard their seas against aggression, when England
declared war on Germany, men thought, that the Judgment
Day was coming, that the 600 ships of the British navy
would torment the monsters of the deep and the angels in
Heaven, that they would destroy mountains and nations with
a deluge of fire, that they would close in on their enemies
and hold them in thrall and leave them a heritage of pain
and misery, so ran the fancies and speculations of men,
but what has time revealed? Among the war news that you
read daily do you ever find a single victory to the
credit of the British ^leet? Are their warships ever
safe from enemy submarines and their torpedoes? Do you
not read how their dreadnoughts are daily sun* and destroyed
in the Dardanelles and the disasters their troops are suf
fering in Gallipoli, that grave of Englishmen? They boast
ed that they would enter Constantinople in a couple of
weeks and raise the cross over the dome of the Ay a Sofia,
that they would arrest the Sultan in his own capital and
cut the caliphate at the root. But after four months
spent before the impregnable forts and mighty guns of the
Dardanelles they have achieved nothing but the destruction
of their ships and the wastage of their armies. You have
seen them fill your land with their wounded men; you may
ask the ocean about their drowned and slain, continued
disappointment and disaster has been the portion of the
British fleet, till now the shame and disgrace of that
nation is a byword everywhere. Their greatness is discover
ed to be purely fictitious and their strength mere words.
If this is not so, point out to me any country where, after
a full year of warfare, the English have a single achievement
to their
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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
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- File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’
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- 102r:115v, 87r:99v
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