File 705/1916 Pt 1 'Arab revolt: reports' [267r] (81/494)
The record is made up of 1 item (226 folios). It was created in 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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iBEd« in gold or Bilrer.
Various sources confirm the report that Jemal
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
visited
^hellal on the 23rd June. tie drove throu ^ the town, it seems,
with considerable pomp and ceremony, attended by an Austrian of
hi$» rank. * reliable agent reports that among the 11,000
<
troops there were 5,000 Germans and Austrians and 2,000 Af^iana.
Jemal issued a proclamation, stating that all Moslems must fi-ht
for their religion t that there would be an increase in the pay of
the rank and file 9 and that, when the railway to iiassana was ready
in a ^nonthe time, an attack would be made by their combined forces
on hgypt where the Egyptians would welcome and support them.
after this Jemal seems to have returned to Damascus, where he
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