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File 705/1916 Pt 2 'Arab revolt: Arab reports; Sir M Sykes' reports' [5r] (7/450)
The record is made up of 1 item (245 folios). It was created in 22 Jan 1918-24 Mar 1919. 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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Printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence.
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ARABIAN REPORT.
N.b. No, XXVII January 24, 1917 (night).
Contents.
FART I.
Arabia.
Hejaz.
The General Situation.
The Rabeg-h Brigade.
Ottoman Debt.
Rumoured Intention to Assassinate the Kins’,
Asir
The Farsan Islands.
Aden.
Qatar.
Syria.
The French “ Legion d’Orient ”
Murder of the Syriac Patriarch o: Antioch,
Starvation of the Inhabitants.
Mesopotamia.
Irak-Arabi.
PART II.
Persia.
Afghanistan |
PART III.
Miscellaneous.
Report of the Arab Bureau.
Coronation of the Empress of Abyssinia.
The King of Siam and the King of Hejaz.
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PART iv.::
The Press.
Blnemy Propaganda in the English Press.
The Marsh Arab.
Italy’s Claims in Asia Minor.
PART I.
Hejaz.
ARABIA.
The General Situation.
The Arab Bureau telegraphed on the 17th January saying that from information
received there were indications that following on raids by tribesmen acting independently
south and south-west of Medina, Turks were nervous regarding communications with
that place, and by retiring two battalions probably of 55th Regiment from Kheif
(Jedeida) to Bir Abbas, Bir Raha, and district of the latter, were accordingly reinforcing
their line between Bir Abbas and Bir Derwish. The Turkish field hospital was being
moved back to where it was six weeks ago. Two corps of the 2 nd battalion 129th
[898—27] B
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This item contains papers relating to British military and intelligence operations in the Hejaz and broader Arabian Peninsula during the First World War. Notably, the item contains reports by my Sir Mark Sykes relating broadly to the Anglo-French absorption of the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire after the War.
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