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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [109v] (218/520)
The record is made up of 1 file (260 folios). It was created in 10 Jul 1921-27 Feb 1922. It was written in English and French. 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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14
No. 14.
Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby to the Marquess Curzon of
Kedleston.—(Received December 23.)
-(Telegraphic.) Cairo, December 23 1921.
FOLLOWING is the message referred to in my immediately pie-
ceding telegram from Zaghlul to adviser of the Ministiy of the
Trifnvmv
“ I have the honour to inform you that I have received your letter
of to-day’s date, in which you communicate to me order of Field-
Marshal’ Allenby preventing me from working in politics, and com
pelling me to go to my farm without delay to live there under surveil
lance of the Mudir. This is tyrannical order, against which I protest
with all my power, because there is no justification for it.
“ As I am delegated by the people of Egypt to strive for her inde
pendence, no one else has any authority to free me from this sacred
dutv. Therefore I shall remain at my post, loyal to my duty and
force can do what it wishes with us individually and collectively, as
we are all prepared to meet what may befall us with a steady heart
and a calm conscience, knowing that any possible measures used
against our lawful endeavours will only help the country to realise liei
aspirations to complete independence.”
No. 15.
Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby to the Marquess Curzon of
Kedleston.—(Received December 23.)
(Telegraphic.) Cairo, December 23, 1921.
MY immediately preceding telegram. ^
Last evening there were demonstrations outside Zaghlul s house.
Demonstrators were dispersed by police. Two rioters were killed
and nine wounded.
Sinnot Hanna, Mustafa Nahas, and Makram, together with two
Barakats, were arrested this afternoon, having refused to obey my
instructions. They are proceeding forthwith to Suez.^ Action taken
has caused considerable excitement and state of C airo has been
restless during the day. There has been considerable sabotage and
hooliganism. At 10 a.m. military authorities took over the town in
accordance with previous arrangements. Disturbance cannot as yet
be said to be considerable, though it is general. Troops have had to
fire, and as far as is at present ascertained two Egyptians have been
killed and one wounded. One was ringleader in erecting a barricade
to impede progress of troops, the other was killed after a revolver shot
had been fired at lorry full of troops.
Zaghlul
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
has arrived at Suez and is lodged in Indian transit
tail At Alexandria there was demonstration, which was dispersed.
Considerable number of seditious pamphlets have been distributed.
Onlv report received from provinces states that at Tanta there
have been demonstrations, but British troops have been sent there
to-day and situation is in hand.
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and other papers concerning the political situation in Egypt and negotiations between the British Government and an Egyptian delegation for the end of the British Protectorate in Egypt. The papers cover the effort to come to an agreement on future relations between the two parties following negotiations in the summer of 1921 and up until Britain's unilateral declaration of the end of the protectorate in February 1922.
The majority of the memoranda is written by Foreign Office officials, including the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Curzon. Records of meetings of the Cabinet and a sub-committee on the Egyptian situation, and of a few high-level gatherings at 10 Downing Street, make up a substantial part of the file. There is also a large amount of correspondence between Curzon and Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, High Commissioner of Egypt, on the question of Egyptian independence and events in Egypt. Other papers include printed collections relating to the Egyptian situation that were presented to Parliament.
At the back of the file is a chronological summary and a résumé of events in Egypt since the publication of the report of the Milner Mission to Egypt (folios 238-260).
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- 1 file (260 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 260; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-260; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Mss Eur F112/262
- Title
- Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt
- Pages
- 1r:1v, 4r:5v, 8r:9v, 11r:19v, 23r:44v, 49r:260v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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