'File II. IRAQ (3) Vol. 1 Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens on the Shatt-al Arab. (Kuwait's relations with Turkish Govt. and Turkish demand that Kuwaitis should take out Turkish Nationality Certificates)' [‎189r] (395/636)

A nixad. military and civil coramisRion has been f’ormod.
bo racommand chAa^as in tb.a berriborial or^aniRabion or the
x<adil ny batbcuj.ir-n ocnbraR^and,ooncumonbly bo nepor’b on biio
suitability <?i' tha axisbing civil a/lminiebrabive di^isionfi
(Qadhas and NaJiiyalia) or tha Baghdad Wilayat. IT a militoiy
mambars era Lb.Col .j asira Boy and *aJor Yunis BiT'andi or the
bbali,and ba.lira Krrandi,a (Jattain or Ini'antr^r. rrT ho civil.
memborH are 1 Isa Brrendi (Jariilzaclah), 1 Abdur ^OiRan Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
(X'achachiaadaii) ,and 'Abdur liahman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. (>iaidarizadah) ,-all
,/prominent citizens or Baghdad.
The Turkish National Fete was celebrated at Baghdad with
pm oh e'clat on the 23rd or July.
m the early morning ‘there were snorts for th.o cavalry
and an inspection of th.o Gendarmerie Training School # both near
the NorUi Oato. The Oav JLry events included a nine-mile race
bv selected hair troops on the road room Ba* a Utah, also
swinning competitions in the river Tigris for mounted and
unmounted non. At the Gendr..merle insepetion recruits were
sworn in in the presence or the Wall,and demonstrations or
practical work {surrounding and capturing armed robbers etc.)
were given. I noticed that a few Oristian and Jewish
recruits were sworn in by their own priests on their own
scriptures,and that their part or the ceremony w s introduced
in the middle or the proceedingB,apparently in order that they
might not come either before or after the Wfuhajniadans, The
American Consul ( T ir.Simuich) and myself ware the only two
European spectotors of these early functions.
The ’ a -1 i 1 s officia? reception at tie Sarai was held
between 11 o'clock and 12 noon by fiiropean time. The consular
body were at first informed that plain clothes would be tie
order or tie day: but at tie last aoment it was announced tiat
under instructions from Const ntinople,mil uinform must be
worn. Nazim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. being more regardful of his comfort than