الملف ٣٠١\١٩٢١ "بلاد الرافدين: تقارير استخباراتية" [ظ‎‎١‎٠‎٩] (٥٨٦/٢٢٩)

under which they can borrow money. This group is composed of young and ignorant
has little influence, (b) Thinking men who hold that a republic is contrary to the ^
Islam and favour the Sharif either from personal enthusiasm or because he stands for °
of a federation of Arab States, (c) Those who hold the same view with regard to a to
but dislike the Sharif and seek for a possible ruler in the ‘Iraq or Turkey without findiL PU ^
factory solution, (d) Those who wish for the continuance of somethin- like S '
regime, a High Commissioner in Council, for the next seven years. & t le present
Hie Christians are wholly opposed to a National Government and think that uiifW •
experienced Sharifian administration they will be worse off than they were under tl e T
Ihey are preparing a petition asking for the postponement for a term of vears of fill T 5 k
of the Amirate, as has been done by the French in Syria, and it is possible that i
Moslems may co-operate with them. possible that Some of the
Pascal lan^d IT Ah ^
people of Basrah and ask for a purely b“govI^ X ° f t
under Bntash proteet.on and be considered as British subjects. (to No 11 pT ra 3) rmm
15.
Krtract from ‘Iraq Police Abstract of Intelligence No. 15 dated Wag
th, 1921.
Basrah, 23rd April, 1921.
SaiyW Mb pS ttXh^ltf ,ieo "; eek ‘he, deportation of
enemies are many and those that fear him are more “ P The'do * ■ t l i'' 0f ° r P ersoual
one telegram from Baghdad announcing his fall " IS <lead " ere ‘ he "ords of
his peIXf amtoS 'While some maintain that
majority incline to the belief ttobe was a friend of th.T^n 0n , ^ P ° ltical free< J om ' «■»
and now that he was gone no man of eciua! ahilitv will I'.l t l . who worli ed for the British,
the British and so the Independence of ‘Irao wilfhp h for J h coming to act as a figurehead for
ability to rule are all agamstexteriiaf inSeX^w^fihf’/”bf 6 ' >ther 0 " tStandi ”®
t A --f tt-i Basrah, 23rd April, 1921.
of A1 ShabibatTlVa’tXyahjVhLh haf bXlX.'B S 8 Tr** o.T'? 1 -'' (apparently a branch
larger towns, the object of which was te get ri / of n„, I !, h ' a - h ' a< ’ Mosnl and »«iei-o*the
If a representative Arab Government s fomed Ifh ’f su PP“ sed *» be hostile to their aims.
Mack list will be deported. If Self-Government Is tf^ S/Xtot
(Norn : Arif Hikmat was deported to Basrah i„ connection with the Istiola, case, see No. „. para. tOj
On tlm 14+], •, . Basrah, 23rd April, 1921.
O three men M X °bider H S D ' f lkl J Glirdowara hl which the lead-
Qadduri. The last named recited a poem anm'kt ! i! .^“^ Mathra Dass, and Pir Baklisli
the unjust British Government. The other two °f the wretehed state of India due to
audience not to trust in promises, taking L ^6x^1. the Same theme aild die
being present. ? dKlllg as an sample the Railway strike, many of the strikers
. A few weeks ago the tribe of th. < a i ^Qubah, 30th April, 1921.
Brttis^ r ,anted in rtrn, This eSeX d^eXrtlbl
NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES.
blbS ^ 4?TiSt, 0, “ ° f the Bani Tamim > the Alb ” H*
the mnrdcl by the “ nr , dCT of two men of thVformcr W PP ° S v te i the month of th e ‘Adhaim,
casualties fort" 61 '* i red u P on and the Albu Hishmah 2 ! be bdfer - Police sent to arr
the Hiwh ” a 7 me)uded * he original mnS P ar t0 attaek the A1 b« Hasan; I
theHtghCmmnmmoner, proposed to make th™e disorder .n Mntasarrif - with the approval
courage b oVI e demanded for May 27. on^hieh rift the 0 ? casion t»r the eolleetion of 1
courage acquiescence. ' ° n " I " eh da y an aerial display was arranged to <
r : aiyi :
half the nrofit inie 10 .^rt ran ‘ lapu rights to the lessee Th T'*' iw^elve years hut does not
the profit but ultimately gave a tap,, sanadTo the la "'. Government to,
The Mntasarrif and other An