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Updated: May 22, 2025
Our duties were to harry the Turk without hurting the Arab, to blockade the Arabian coast against the Turk while allowing dhow-traffic with foodstuffs consigned to Arab merchants and steamer-cargoes of food for the alleged use of pilgrims to go through.
The Hejazis' ingenuous idea was to go on taking money from us, the Turks and the Sharif, while thanks to our lenient blockade a regular dhow-traffic fed them. We did not approve of this Utopian policy, and the fall of Kut brought matters to a climax.
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