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October 1914.
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After cornpliments,
May God keep you in safety. I send you herewith in
letter No. I the purport of a communication which 1 have
received from Colonel Cox the former Agent at Bushire who is
now Foreign Secretary of the Glorious Government at Simla with
the reins of affairs in his hand, and he is the man whom you
and I ooth know to be our friend. You should read these words
carefully and consider their meaning well. According to what
I hear this war is entirely the fault of the Germans, and they
are inciting the Turks: May God abase them both: otherwise
my son they (Germans) will give the Turks entire control
over you and .me and over all the Arabs, and you know the
enmity of the Turks towards the Arabs. And God has f&hewn
favour to the Arabs and Islam generally by bringing the Glo
rious English Government into existence, it is they who
protect their Muslims in India and also our Arab Muslims of
whom are you and your followers and I and mine. You see that
all the Arabs are in God’s care then in that of the Glorious
Government, we have experienced how they keep (harm) away
from us. And you and I whom, please God, oTl the Ara,os wilo.
follow must keep to our friendship with the Glorious Govern
ment, if we do not help them we must at least refrain from
interference and not listen to the ^seductions of the Germans.
By following the wishes of the Glorious Government we shall
find our own happiness, and we have to be grateful to them
my son, since our help is not necessary to them as theirs
is to us. Our comfort and welfare is from God then from
them end may God never cause the others to reign over us who
will injure us, namely the Turks and the Germans wno ore