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File 705/1916 Pt 1 'Arab revolt: reports' [472r] (491/494)
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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Bir El Giddi there is a shortage.
In this region the German surveying party mentioned last
week has been working. The sites of new wells were selected near
Katia; an underground store is also being built there.
Five or six new wells have been dug jefefctf at Bir Gererat.
Miscellaneous. Other items of news have been reeeived:-
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No aeroplanes seem yet to have reached Beersheba, but an officer
of the Turkish flying corps was seen there recently #
There has been much transport activity between Kossaima and
Hassana, a concentration seems to be going on at Hassana.
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Some Arab Sheikhs round
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Abu Shar hare been asked by the
A telegram has just come in stating that there are now
aeroplanes (probably fast German machines) at both Arish
and Beersheba, Probably they have come from the
Dardanelles,
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