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Our government is worse than the old Turkish system. They kept fourteen thousand local conscripts embodied, and killed a yearly average of two hundred Arabs in maintaining peace. We keep ninety thousand men, with aeroplanes, armoured cars, gunboats, and armoured trains. We have killed about ten thousand Arabs in this rising this summer.

We have not reached the limit of our military commitments. Four weeks ago the staff in Mesopotamia drew up a memorandum asking for four more divisions. I believe it was forwarded to the War Office, which has now sent three brigades from India. If the North-West Frontier cannot be further denuded, where is the balance to come from? Meanwhile, our unfortunate troops, Indian and British, under hard conditions of climate and supply, are policing an immense area, paying dearly every day in lives for the wilfully wrong policy of the civil administration in Baghdad. General Dyer was relieved of his command in India for a much smaller error, but the responsibility in this case is not on the Army, which has acted only at the request of the civil authorities. The War Office has made every effort to reduce our forces, but the decisions of the Cabinet have been against them.

The Government in Baghdad have been hanging Arabs in that town for political offences, which they call rebellion. The Arabs are not at war with us. Are these illegal executions to provoke the Arabs to reprisals on the three hundred British prisoners they hold? And, if so, is it that their punishment may be more severe, or is it to persuade our other troops to fight to the last?

We say we are in Mesopotamia to develop it for the benefit of the world. all experts say that the labour supply is the ruling factor in its development. How far will the killing of ten thousand villagers and townspeople this summer hinder the production of wheat, cotton, and oil? How long will we permit millions of pounds, thousands of Imperial troops, and tens of thousands of Arabs to be sacrificed on behalf of colonial administration which can benefit nobody but its administrators?



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La 2003-09-22 12:09:43, casandra a scris:

> Our government is worse than the old Turkish system. They kept
> fourteen thousand local conscripts embodied, and killed a yearly
> average of two hundred Arabs in maintaining peace. We keep ninety
> thousand men, with aeroplanes, armoured cars, gunboats, and armoured
> trains. We have killed about ten thousand Arabs in this rising this
> summer.
> 
> We have not reached the limit of our military commitments. Four weeks
> ago the staff in Mesopotamia drew up a memorandum asking for four
> more divisions. I believe it was forwarded to the War Office, which
> has now sent three brigades from India. If the North-West Frontier
> cannot be further denuded, where is the balance to come from?
> Meanwhile, our unfortunate troops, Indian and British, under hard
> conditions of climate and supply, are policing an immense area,
> paying dearly every day in lives for the wilfully wrong policy of the
> civil administration in Baghdad. General Dyer was relieved of his
> command in India for a much smaller error, but the responsibility in
> this case is not on the Army, which has acted only at the request of
> the civil authorities. The War Office has made every effort to reduce
> our forces, but the decisions of the Cabinet have been against them.
> 
> The Government in Baghdad have been hanging Arabs in that town for
> political offences, which they call rebellion. The Arabs are not at
> war with us. Are these illegal executions to provoke the Arabs to
> reprisals on the three hundred British prisoners they hold? And, if
> so, is it that their punishment may be more severe, or is it to
> persuade our other troops to fight to the last?
> 
> We say we are in Mesopotamia to develop it for the benefit of the
> world. all experts say that the labour supply is the ruling factor in
> its development. How far will the killing of ten thousand villagers
> and townspeople this summer hinder the production of wheat, cotton,
> and oil? How long will we permit millions of pounds, thousands of
> Imperial troops, and tens of thousands of Arabs to be sacrificed on
> behalf of colonial administration which can benefit nobody but its
> administrators?
> 
> 
> 
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