(1)pp printed text with royal coat of arms 22 x 38cm. Good, folded into 8 sections with some wear at the folds and edges, and spotting to the blank verso. This English language edition was printed on the day of delivery, 2 Nov 1918. There was also a later printing dated 4 Nov 1918 (with printer's code S.G.P. Bd.-1455-2160-5000-4-11-18), and an Arabic edition is also recorded. Lieutenant General William Marshall (1865-1939) delivered his Proclamation in the name of HM the King Emperor George V at the Serai in Baghdad a couple of days after he accepted the Ottoman surrender at Mosul on 30 October 1918. He opens by repeating his late predecessor General Sir Stanley Maude's commitments to the people of Baghdad and Iraq "to come not as conquerors but as deliverers", and to respect religion and private affairs with equal justice and opportunity for all (Maude's Baghdad Proclamation, 19 Mar 1917). He summarises events since Maude's death, bringing them up to date: "on the Tigris also we have