ملف ٧٠٥/١٩١٦ الجزء ١ "انتفاضة عربية - تقارير" [و‎‎٢‎٧‎٥] (٤٩٤/٩٧)

On July ;$rd kohammed idris %aa at Jedabia, and it was reported
Uiat Tripoli Arab# were joining him in donaiderable numbera,
Cairo aeema certain, however, that these accounts are much
exaggerated, and tliat very few Tripolitans can have been able to
make so aimioua a journey*
^ras at ^awiet early in July and waa said to be in communication
/
with Idris*
It seems clear that ha hopes to be able to create a force for
offensive purposes; a party of lurks and Germans seem to have
landed on the ooast between Deraa and ben^msi at the end of JMay;
and it is reported that recruits have been levied from the natives
of the hafua urea* ihe bedouin* as usual* have shown thems elves