File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎82v] (173/834)

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been superintendent ot Cnstoms at feamsui , and s
still in Mecca as Mimster of Wafct. Emu ^sem, tnea
to discourage the Turks from sending troops to Asn, but
on Abdullah Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. dying suddenly, Constantinople d^ e on
an expedition, and he, the Emir, consented to co-opei«_
prevent it from doing more harm than necessai) to the •
izzet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. came down to Jeddah with three troopships and fire
French-speaking staff officers with moustaches turned up « «
Kaiser On Ids invitation the Emir went down to Jeddah,
though warned by the Meccans that Izzet’s intention was to
seizeMbs person. However nothing of the sort happened t e
Emir treated the staff with contempt; and he only advised Izzet
in the interests of the Arabs. They went on together to Quntudah,
where sixteen taburs were collected. 1 hese were put into camp
at Joz, where they contracted cholera and could not move tor
four months. Finally Feisal, whose relations with the urks
were very indifferent (he shot one Turkish officer point-blank
for incivility), had to do their work for them, and it was he who
relieved Ebhah. The Emir urged Suleiman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who had
taken the command, to proclaim an amnesty, but on this being
referred to the Porte, the reply was that Suleiman must decide
and not the Emir. Therefore the amnesty was never granted
Had it not been for subsequent mistakes by the Beni Mugheid
chief, the Turks would not have stayed in Ebhah ; but now
they have managed to corrupt all the people of that neighbour
hood and make them thoroughly bad Arabs. Izzet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. went
on to the Yemen, where he brought about the entente with the
Imam, having been persuaded by Emir Husein that this would
prove m the long run far cheaper for the Turks than continued
war and annual expedition of troops from C onstantinople.
(d) Germans in Hejaz.
Mr. Philby, while at Tail, was assured that a party of ten
or twelve German officers had lived there before the war ; though,
since they went out only by night, no one could say he had
seen them. They made a practice, said the informants, of
beginning music and uproar at the hour of evening prayer. I
asked King Husein in general terms whether the Turks had
brought Germans into Hejaz, and he replied that no German went
inland except Oppenheim, who came down, in 1915, as far as
Ayun outside Medina. A report of the fact reached Emir
Husein in Mecca and he tackled Ghalib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. on the subject,
but received a denial. He pressed the point, however, and
Oppenheim was quietly sent north again, Ghalib continuing to
deny his having arrived. He did not enter Medina. Oppenheim
had met Sherif Husein when the latter was living at Stenia,
on the Bosphorus, before 1908, and had tried to pump him about
Hejaz, under cover of historical investigation. I asked specifically
about Mecca and Taif, and the King denied that any Germans were
ever there. As for Germans on the coast, he told me little that was