مجموعة مختارة من الوثائق القانونية والتاريخية والجغرافية التي قدمت لمحكمة التحكيم لتأييد وجهة النظر المصرية
(تابع) المرفق رقم (11) التقرير العام "لأوين" حول أعمال لجنة حدود سيناء المؤرخ 28 أكتوبر 1906
"وزارة الخارجية المصرية، الكتاب الأبيض عن قضية طابا، القاهرة، 1989، ص 179-199"

          The Commission was composed as follows, and were given full powers by his highness the Khedive, side attached Decree, Appendix (A): -

Turkish Commission

Itinerary

          Leaving Cairo on the 24th May 1906, the Egyptian Commissioners arrived at Akaba on the 26th May. The Turkish Commissioners had been at Akaba for some days.

          We stayed at Akaba Sufficient time to survey the whole of the locality of Akaba and the country as far south as Wadi Tueibe and as far north as Bir Said and Jebel Sueiga.

          During our stay we discussed the boundary question at some length with the Turkish Commissioners, and on the 4th June started to march along an approximately straight line from Marashash to Rafeh, reconnoitring and making notes of the country for a radius of about 10 miles, and passing through Mashash-el-Kontilla, Ma Yein, Ain Kadeis, Kossaima, Ain Gedeirat, and El Auja.

          We crossed the El Ajera, an undulating Saudi district arriving at Rafeh on the 28th June 1906.

          The boundary question, after long and tedious negotiations, was not finally agreed upon until the signing and exchanging of the Agreement and maps at 8 P.M. on the 1st October 1906.

          We started on our return journey to Taba, on the 6th October, to erect telegraph poles along the boundary-line at intervisible points, where masonry pillars will aiterwarus be built.

          We arrived at Taba on the 17th October, and coming through Sinai via Nekhl and Suez, I arrived here on the 21st instant, after an absence of five months.

A detailed itinerary of our journey is attached ((Appendix (B)).

Agreement

          A copy of the Agreement and map signed and exchanged at Rafeh on the 1st October 1906, is attached as Appendix (C).

          The original Agreement and map were sent to the British Agency from Rafeh on the 5th October 1906.

Proceedings of Commission

          I have already submitted to your Excellency, through the Intelligence Office, full detailed reports on the proceedings and discussions of the Joint Commission; and this Report is only intended to be a summary of those Reports, together with the list of the names of members of my staff which I desire to bring officially to your Excellency's notice, and some notes and proposals on the future administration of the peninsula.

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