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APPENDIX V.
ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MAJOR GENERAL SIR GEORGE
MACMUNN, K.C.B., D.S.O., INSPECTOR GENERAL OE COMMUNI
CATIONS, MESOPOTAMIA EXPEDITIONARY EORCE, ON THE
10th DECEMBER 1917, ON THE OCCASION OE THE PRESEN
TATION TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR KHAZAL KHAN, SHAIKH
OE MOHAMMERAH, ON BEHALE OE HIS MAJESTY’S GOV
ERNMENT OE THE KNIGHT GRAND COMMANDERSHIP OE
THE INDIAN EMPIRE, AND THE SHAIKH’S REPLY.
Your Excellency,
It is with feelings of the greatest satisfaction that I have accepted the
dutv with which, at the request of ray friend Sir Percy Cox, I have been
charged on this occasion, to convey to Your Excellency the exalted Insignia
of the decoration which Your Excellency’s consistent friendship has so richly
merited.
I am commanded by His Majesty’s Government to announce to Your
Excellency that my August Sovereign, King George the Eifth, may his Kingdom
endure, has been pleased to confer on you the high honour of a Grand Com-
mandership of the Indian Empire, and I am on their behalf to present you with
the Insignia thereof.
This indication of good-will and esteem on the part of His Majesty s
Government is conferred on Your Excellency as a mark of their appreciation
of Your Excellency’s sincere friendship for the British Government displayed in
trying times, and therefore all the more welcome.
With this short preface, I will proceed to present Your Excellency with
the said decoration, and in doing so I need only add the hope that you may
long he preserved to render loyal and patriotic services to your own Govern
ment, the friend of the Allied cause, and to continue, as in the past, to promote
the cordial relations which have long existed between the Shaikhs of Moham-
merah and the British Government, from the time of Shaikh Haji Jabir Khan
until now.