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11 MAY 1916
(84129/16)
POLITICA L
Cypher telegram to Sir H.Macivlahon (Cairo).
Foreign Office. MaytCth 1916, 9.30 p.rn.
No.373.
Your tele.grans Nos. 322 and 328 (of May 2nd and
3rd. Arab question).
I approve proposed reply generally, hut you may
accentuate paragraph 4 in following sense
(D). "Touching your complaints about the conduct of
the Kussian campaign in the North, the Russian
Government do not countenance atrocities, neither do
they pemit vengeance to he taken hy their troops for
the crimes committed hy the Turkish Government
against the Armenians. The Russian Government have
no desire to encroach upon the lands of the Arabs;
on the contrary, they are friendly to the Arab cause,
and should Your Highness wish to communicate with the
Arabs of Diarbekir and the Kurds of the Northern
Jezirsh, who are as Arabs in sentiment, any message
you desire can be conveyed to them by means of the
Russian Government".
Paragraph 6:- You should omit last sentence,
viz., from word "Turks" to word "Sinai".
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