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Folios 503-505, Turkey Code 44, File 12958, Paper 28628. Sent by Captain C F Cromie,...

Catalogue reference: FO 371/149/96

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This record is about the Folios 503-505, Turkey Code 44, File 12958, Paper 28628. Sent by Captain C F Cromie,... dating from 1906 Aug 22 in the series Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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FO 371/149/96
Date
1906 Aug 22
Description

Folios 503-505, Turkey Code 44, File 12958, Paper 28628.

Sent by Captain C F Cromie, HM Consul General at Dakar, West Africa (Tiverton, Devon)

Reports conversation on his homeward voyage with M Merland Pouty, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Senegal, Niger who stated that the French occupation of Gadez and Bilma had occurred as a result of the approach of a Turkish expedition, accompanied by Vischer who was at first thought to have been a German.

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Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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