"ملف رقم II/٨ مذكرات معلومات من إدارة الخارجية بخصوص شؤون مناطق شبه الجزيرة العربية الخاضعة للحكم العثماني. نوفمبر "٠٧ --" [و‎‎٣‎٧] (١١٠/٧٣)

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had recently been granted, and why there
had been no illuminations and public
rejoicings. The Commander-in-Chief fearing
personal violence . would not meet his
officeis. The Yali subsequently appeared
on the scene, when the officers were
informed of the orders that had been
received from Constantinople. A public
demonstration and illuminations then took
place. It was further stated that the Com
mander-in-Chief was to be succeeded by
Osman Pasha from Monastir, and that, pend
ing his arrival, Zekki Pasha from Mosul
would be in temporary command of the Vlth
Army Corps. According to a subsequent
report, Muhammad Pasha, Dagbestani, Com
manding the troops at 'YYazna, was expected
at Baghdad as temporary Commander of the
Corps.
On the 17th August, Major Ramsay
reported that a Club and a Committee (two
separate bodies) of Young Turks had been
formed. The Club was intended to be social
and non-political, and persons of all respec
table classes were, it was understood, eligible
for membership. The Committee of Union
and Progress was said to be frankly political.
Major Ramsay stated that no Secretary
had so far been appointed, and that, until the
Committee became more properly organised,
it was difficult to learn what was taking place.
170. On the 24th August, Major Ramsay
Embargo on the ex- reported that the Yali
portation of grain from had omcially communi-
Baghdad. cated to him on the
23rd idem the embargo w hich had been en
forced against the export of W'heat. The
ValPs letter stated that the embargo was only
“ temporary”. It had also been extended to
barley and ghi.
171. (Vide para. 142, August 1908.)
Situation in the On the 30th July,
Hedjaz. the Acting British
Consul at Jeddah reported to the British
Embassy at Constantinople that, on the 12th
idem, a large number of the Masruh division
of the Barb tribe had committed a night
attack on the camp of the Turkish soldiers at
Bir Rumah, about two miles from Medina,
and had been repulsed with very heavy loss.
On the l7th idem, Medina was again attacked
by a large number of Bedouins, who were
repulsed with heavy losses.
A dhow r belonging to a British Indian
was also said to have been attacked on the 1st
July by armed pirates of the Metemeh tribe,
wTiile anchored at Moajjiz, near Shageg,
between Lohaya and Confidah. The Captain
and crew, six in number, were over-powered,