أوراق اللجنة الشرقية التابعة لمجلس الحرب [و‎‎١‎٩] (٥٤٤/٣٧)

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Printed for the War Cabinet. May 101b.
SEC IIKT.
E.C. 8th Minutes.
WAR CABINET.
EASTERN COMMITTEE.
Minutes of a Meeting of the Eastern Committee held in Lord Curzotis Loom at the
Privy Council Office on Friday, May 10, 1918, at 5 p.m.
Present:
The Right Hon. the Earl
Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I. E.
(in the Chair).
The Right lion. A. J. Balfour, O.M., M.P., ]
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Right Hon. the Lord Hardinge of
Penshurst, K.G., P.C., G.C.B., G.O.S.I.,
G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.O.V.O., I.S.O.,
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
Sir Mark Sykes, Bart., M.P., Foreign
Office.
Mr. L. Oliphant, C.M.G., Foreign Office.
General Sir H. H. M ilson, K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief of the Imperial
General Staff.
Major-General Sir G. M. M . Macdonogh,
K.C.M.G., C.B., Director of Military
Intelligence.
Sir Thomas W. Holderness, G.C.B.,
K.C.S.T., representing the Secretary of
State for India.
Mr. J. E. Shuokburgh, India Office.
Also attended:
Mr. J. M. Keynes, C.B., Treasury.
Captain E. Abraham, Secretary.
Instructions to 1. The Committee had before them a telegram fioni Sii ( .
General Marling, dated the 7th May (E.C.-264).
Guns ter ville. Xhe Chairman explained that General Dunsterville proposed to
send a party of British officers and men to Tabriz, and that this
course was deprecated by Sir C. Marling on the ground that it.
would prove disadvantageous to the Nestorian Christians, u horn \\c
wished to help. The question for the Committee to decide, theie-
fore, was whether this expedition should proceed, in spite of
Sir C. Marling’s views, or whether it should be countermanded.
General Macdonogh, in reply to a question by the Chairman,
stated that General Dunsterville had not initiated action on his own
account, but that the expedition had been suggested by Sir C. Marling
himself. n . .
The Director of Military Intelligence then related m sequence
correspondence that had taken place between himself and Lord
Hardinge, between the War Office and the General Officer Com
manding, Mesopotamia, and between Sir C. Marling and the Foreign
Office. It appeared that as late as 2nd May Sir C. Marling had held
the opinion that European officers should be sent among Nestorian
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