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File 705/1916 Pt 2 'Arab revolt: Arab reports; Sir M Sykes' reports' [60r] (117/450)
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty s Go verariiexitri
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Printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence.
mment;)
N.S. No. XIX. November 29, 1916 (night).
Contents.
PART I.
The Sherif of Mecca.
Sir R. Wingate on the Situation.
Captain Lawrence’s Report.
French Guns for the Sherif.
Turkish Force in Hej-tz.
The Hejaz Railway.
Ill-treatment of the People of Medina by the Turks.
The Sherif and the Shaykhs.
The Sherif’s Title.
Official Reply to the Sherif.
Arab Prisoners from Russia.
Arab Prisoners from India.
The Bank at Jeddah.
? Greek War Material for the Sherif.
Congratulations from the Sherif.
Colonel Cadi at Rabegh.
Ibn Saud and Kovveyt.
PART II.
Political Notes from the Fields of Operations.
M esopotamia.
PART III.
Miscellaneous.
Sayid Mustapha El Idrisi.
Syria.
Suggested Increase of the Egyptian Army.
Report of Arab Bureau for October.
APPENDIX (A).
Letter from Sir P. Cox to Ibn Saud.
APPENDIX (B).
Miscellaneous Cuttings from the Press.
PART J.
THE SHERIF OF MECCA.
Sir R. Wingate on the Situation.
Sir R. Wingate, telegraphing on the 22 nd November [No. 29], said that he had
had an opportunity of discussing the situation with an intelligent and influential
Sudanese who was sent to Mecca by Sir Said Ali El Murghani as his delegate, and in
addition had received private letters from Colonel Wilson. He gathered from both that
one of the Sherif s principal objects in declaring himself an independent King was to
counteract propaganda sedulously introduced by C.U.P. leaders that he was nothing
more than a dupe of the British "Government, to which he had practically sold Hejaz.
The Sherif admitted that to some extent this was credited by some of his own loyal
tribes. From the same source probably comes the information given by Captain
Lawrence when he was in Khartum, and in warning us of the danger of landing
—181
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