ملف ٧٠٥/١٩١٦ الجزء ٢ "انتفاضة عربية: التقارير العربية؛ تقارير السير م. سايكس" [و‎‎١‎٠] (٤٥٠/١٧)

APPRECIATION OF THE
ATTACHED ARABIAN REPORT, N.S. No. XXY.
The Aeab Movement.
1 be situation in Hejaz remains stationary, and the question of the British brigade
being despatched to Rabegh remains unsettled until the King declares himself
responsible for the introduction of Christians into Hejaz. He is little likely to do this
unless his affairs are at a desperate pass. The value of the Arab movement to the
Entente Powers is shown by the table on p. 1 to amount to the cancelling of no less
than live Turkish divisions, which would, under other circumstances, be liberated for
service in Europe or against the Caucasus or Mesopotamia.
Idrisi and the Ears an Islands.
Idrisi has given an unsatisfactory answer to Colonel Jacob both in substance and
in form.
M. S.
January 11, 1917.
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