ملف ٧٠٥/١٩١٦ الجزء ٢ "انتفاضة عربية: التقارير العربية؛ تقارير السير م. سايكس" [ظ‎‎٢‎٠] (٤٥٠/٣٨)

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New Year Compliments.
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The Situation.
Sir R. Wingate telegraphed [Nos. 3 and 4] on the 1 st January, saying that:
(a.) He had appointed General Clayton as his chief staff officer for Hejaz affairs-
the Arab Bureau would continue to be under his, General Clayton's’
immediate direction. j ’
(b.) The King maintained his objection to the immediate landing of Christian
tioops at Rabegh; he had therefore been informed that the troops and
the transports would no longer be retained at Suez, and that his attitude
/ ^ t? 1118 Ma J est J s Government of further responsibility.
(c., verythmg was being done to strengthen the aerodrome site at Rabegh for
v 7 f k Smal . ] £ arns °n of Egyptian army troops; the British com-
mandant had been instructed to hold the position till the Turks attacked in
Sl1 ^ 1 . strength as to render it untenable.
ln8ist , ed on . his application for Moslem troops for Rabegh; Colonel
Wilson was of opinion that if two battalions of un-Christian troops were
Snst VnTforee r 0 e ’h h h S > an gar fl?? CCU l d hold ° Ut ’ with naval Stance,
S?r B [’rce w hjch it was likely the enemy could bring up He
y h ^ m g a te, therefore strongly recommended that a fuither attemnt
d be “ ade to induce the French Government to agree to send its
ontmgent from Suez and the two Senegalese battalions at Jibuti.
The Arab Bureau telegraphed on the 29th December [A.B. 488] that —
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JLX. VILLj.
™i£S,s 1 s;ean 2 5z.*i’ , t?,r“i” r,h “»* k =
&c.; this would be placed at the KIho-’q rhcm 1 r ° Slx » uns w ith munitions,
There was, he said, another and sL&lttrrw h ^^ personnel!
Colonel Bremond asks for it. . ^ aiting at Marseilles to be sent when
that tthJwere 7 stil^S^erpu? fsl^mfra 81 f th Decemb ei-, sayin
that at Thayetmyo there were two Arab officers a | 1 e ^ further service, am
Sherif. The Viceroy asked whether the SirdaT • T d ^ ™ lanteered to join th
sent to Egypt. r wls ^ e T these officers and men to b
India and the Uaj of 191(3.
The General Staff, India ha^ «pn+ rpn
pilgrims : “ Whereas Egyptian pilgrims seeln 'tf h 0 * 6 °f th6 atti ( . tUde ° f the IndiaI
acknowledgments of the arrangements made by the 1 . n their °P ei
returned to India seem t) have kept their onfnions t if In f an P d y ims who b av f
conspicuous by its absence from the pages of the Moslem preTs 8 ” 68 ’ ^ SUbjeCt if