مجموعة مختارة من الوثائق القانونية والتاريخية والجغرافية التي قدمت لمحكمة التحكيم لتأييد وجهة النظر المصرية
(تابع) المرفق رقم (9) الإرادة الإمبراطورية الصادرة من السلطان العثماني في 11 سبتمبر 1906  
"وزارة الخارجية المصرية، الكتاب الأبيض عن قضية طابا، القاهرة، 1989، ص 167 - 170"    

          From a confidential source I am informed that the Imperial Irade also instructs  the Ottoman Minister for War that, with a view to making the Turkish troops near  the frontier independent of the springs now left to Sinai, he is to take all possible  steps, at no matter what cost, to create sources of water supply on the east side of the boundary.

          I found that the Grand Vizier agreed with me in holding that the Commissioners, are excluded from discussing certain political points as being outside their competence,  such as those alluded to in Mr. Findlay's telegram No.236 of the 16th August  viz., that the Sinai Peninsula is a Turkish province and that Egypt has no right to build forts there.

          It was only by the application of considerable pressure that the present settlement, which lead to great opposition in the Council of Ministers, was obtained.

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