ملف ٤٧٢٢\١٩١٨ الجزء ٨ "بلاد الرافدين: الوضع" [و‎‎٤‎٩] (٩٩٥/١٠٦)

' No.
31323/3,.
54 / 102 .
Office of the High Commissionbh,
Baghdad the KHh November, 1920.
To—G.E.Q. (2 copies).
MEMORANDUM.
Reference yonr No. 0/4150/6, dated 8tli October, 1920.
As invited in the postcript to your Memo. I propose to make this report
supplementary to that forwarded to you under cover of Civil Commissioner’s
No. 27355/54/108, dated the 21st September, 1920, and to insert in it matter
omitted from that report which might have been incorporated in it.
It will be convenient if I deal with events in each Division separately,
so far as possible.
Mosul Division.
Events connected with the outrage at Tal Afar which took place early
in June were reported to you under cover of Civil Commissioner s Memo.
No 19462/66/63, dated the 1st July, 1920. Thereafter for some time, as
always after a display of military vigour on our part the Mosul Division
enioved a period of comparative tranquility, which was fortunate, m that
it made possible the transfer of troops from that region to the Euphrates,
where they were very badly needed.
But the lull was not to last long. Certain of the Aghas of Tal Afar and
Dikiis of the surrounding tribes, who became fugitives from justice on the
re-occupation of S Taf Afar, lost no time in getting themselves into touch with
the Turkish authorities at Jazirat ibn Umar, who have always been intense y
hostile to us. Chief among these outlaws were : —
Bulaibil Shaikh of A1 Bu Hamad.
Abdur Rahman Agha of lal Afar.
Muhammad, Shaikh of Gargari.
Bilal Agha.
Yunis ibn Bulaibil.
The authorities at Jazirat gave these persons a f ^^ ^ ^
rifles, ammunition, bombs and money and thus fortified they set to work to
carry out a series of raids in the Mosul area,
retails of these raids are as follows: —
No.
Date.
Locality.
Yictims.
Perpetrator.
t
15-7-20.
Tal Afar road ten
miles from Mosul.
Christian contractor killed.
Bulaibil.
2
3
21-9-90.
Turmarat
Dohuk Road.
1 woman 1 killed .
1 boy )
1 man wounded.
Some animals wounded and
driven off.
150 head of cattle carried ot.
Abdur Rahman Agha.
Bombs were used by
raiders.
Bulaibil.
As a counter to these movements on the 23rf and 25 & J^tonber a
Qara/ were
found to be armed with machine guns, and the attack was not inessed home
hufit had some effect in raising the spirits of our supporters. Hajji Abdul
Aziz of Hassiran and Sulaiman Agha Gar-garr were the most prominent on
our side These men and their followers were in the held against us m June
and their conduct on this occasion—though collusion has since ex
pected— reflects credit on Lt. Chirtin An air reconnaissance on die -9th
September found the Qara Click Dagh vacated by the enemy.
The movement of small columns in different parts of the Division pro
duced a good effect (during September—mde your 1/28 dated 6th Oct e ,
1920—but with the constant fomentation afforded from Jazirat iide n y
No. 30166/66/63, dated 25th October. 1920—m October the trouble bioke
out again. -
On the 24th October another raiding party under Bulaibil unsuccess
fully attacked a convoy between Shurah and Hammam Ah and having been