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File 705/1916 Pt 2 'Arab revolt: Arab reports; Sir M Sykes' reports' [198v] (394/450)
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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a French Tirailleur regiment, recently escaped from the Turkish army and reached
Basra. 1 hey stated that they had left Constantinople 1,000 strong, with other French
Moroccans; _ officered by French-speaking Turks; that many escaped en route for
Bagdad, which they reached early in May ; that they stayed in Bagdad for twenty-four
days and were then sent to Khanikin, whence 300 escaped to Russia.
Ill-treatment of Indian Pilgrims by the Turks.
Tii e A rab Bureau [Report 10, p. 5] gives the story of the ill-treatment of some
Indian Moslem pilgrims a man and his family—who were in Kerbela when the war
broke out. They were detained by the Turks, who issued orders that the goods and
women of Indians were the legal property of those who plundered them. The family
escaped after eighteen months detention. Ths man expressed the opinion that the
lurks were no Moslems, and that they did not act in accordance with the precepts of
Islam; they hardly ever saw a Turk in a mosque. He noted that the local Arabs
disliked the Turks.
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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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