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File 53/1915 Part IV 'German War: Turkey; Caliphate etc' [79r] (154/481)
The record is made up of 1 item (242 folios). It was created in 1915-1916. It was written in English. 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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^lie ,imes of India”, Thursday, February 24, 1916.
the haj pilgrimage.
A Bombay Government Press Note, issued on Wednesday,
states:- Last year 2,433 pilgrims proceeded to Jeddah on
tne Haj pilgrimage. Up to the commencement of December,
1915, 1.309 pilgrims in all had returned to Bombay, and
it was reported that about 1,900 persons, including pilgrims
of the previous Haj, were desirous of returning to India,
and that among this number there were about 1,000 pilgrims,
cniefly derelicts of the season of 1913-14, who were unable
to pay for their return passage to India. Messrs. Turner,
Morrison and Company, on being approached by Government in
the matter, agreed to despatch their steamer Akbar from
Calcutta to Jeddah to bring back these pilgrims to Bombay,
and issued instructions to their agents at Jeddah to
despatch by the vessel, free of charge, as many indigent
pilgrims as could be carried in addition to those who either
held return tickets or were able to pay for their passage.
The Akbar arrived at Bombay at the end of last month with
1,237
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Part 4 consists of correspondence relating to the possible declaration of a caliphate in Arabia and is a continuation of part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/525/1). The papers tell of the British assessment of the situation and the French attitude, as well as correspondence and negotiations with Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, the Grand Sharif of Mecca. The file also discusses the British view of the proposed blockade of the Arabian ports in the Red Sea.
The file also includes a printed document (ff 25-242) marked 'secret' entitled 'Policy in the Middle East', which consists mainly of communications on the military situation in Mespotamia from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes to the Director of Military Information.
The discussion over such matters is mostly between Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, the General Officer Commanding, Egypt, and the Commander-in-Chief, India.
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- Times of India
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