File 705/1916 Pt 2 'Arab revolt: Arab reports; Sir M Sykes' reports' [‎205r] (407/450)

9.
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Monthly requirements to start from the 1st July.
50.000 okes of flour
70.000 okes of rice
2,000 okes of coffee
2,000 okes of sugar
(Three-fourths to be landed at Ttabigh and one-fourth at Jeddah.)
The detailing of two ships permanently to carry the above.
Three-fourths of the supplies still due to be landed at Rabigh and one-fourth at
Jeddah.
(b.) For Immediate Consideration.
1. The formation and equipment of a force of approximately 30^,000 Hejaz
Arabs.
2. Collection, equipment, and preliminary training of all Arab sympathisers in
British prisoners-of-war camps. These to he subsequently sent to the
Hejaz to form the nucleus of the Arab Army.
3. Possibly the maintenance of this army in the field, both in supplies and
munitions.
4. The two extra mountain batteries, one howitzer battery, one field ambulance.
and two or four aeroplanes, already asked for by Sherif, are included in the
above scheme.
If.—P olitical and Miscellaneous.
1. Official recognition by the Powers.
2. Official recognition by the Moslem world.
(To be arranged by the Arabs themselves.)
3. A monthly grant of .125,000L, to be paid in gold from the 1st July, 1916.
(This is required for the organisation and maintenance of Government.)
4. The dispatch of the Mahmal at the usual time.
5. The raising of the Blockade as far south as Lith and the free entry to the
Hejaz of all articles.
(This involves cancelling the order now in force, which only sanctions
the import of necessities.)
6. A Sea-going Yacht with a Moslem crew.
(I do not think that the Sherif expects to get this. At all events,
Faroki regards it as impossible.)
III.— Recommend ations.
1 Immediate appointment of a British officer to act as liaison officer, or, if a
thoroughly experienced and Anglophile Mohammedan cannot be tound, as
Advisei*, under some unpretentious title, to the Hejazi Governor of Jeddah.
He will need a junior British officer, an Egyptian officer from the Sudan
Civil Service, and some clerks.
2 Immediate appointment of an official with Consular experience, but without
the title of Consul. He would work under the English Adviser, if
appointed. _ _ . .
3. Appointment of two small committees, one civil and one military, composed of
English and Arab members, if the Arab pioposals are approved m then
entirety. _ ait
4. Arranging for the cargo of the steamship “ Firuza,” now at Aden, to be
forwarded to Jeddah. _
5. Immediate dispatch of an experienced doctor, with an adequate staff, to
Jeddah.