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File 705/1916 Pt 1 'Arab revolt: reports' [404r] (355/494)
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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Frosi the miscellaneous nature of the evidence to hand
it is not easy to make an accurate statement of the enemy's
dispositions and intentions in the Western Desert.
There was during the first week in February a considerable
force at Siva under bohamfaed Saleh, with Omar Megawil as his
second in command; according to one account it was 4,000 strong;
according to another it included in it about 340 Siwa Muhafsia,
400 Western I uhafsia, presumably Tripolitan Arabs, and 40 coast*
•guardsmen. 1 ohammed Saleh and the doast guard officers were
however, said to be so dirty and dispirited as to be almost
unrecognisable• During the weeki^oo '^en wiUs ca .rl b went to
Farafra to moot a supply train. From another source it is a
ascertained that 20 camel a laden with 1 auser rifles and six gans
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