NOTESTO PAGES61-65 251ministratoroftheconsulateinDamascus)toBethmannHollweg,IOct. 1914,NARAI
T-137/143/0553;andWangenheimro AA, 6Sept.1914,NARA/T-1491397/0330.
53.Oppenheim,"ZuTelegramm425 ausAthenvom13.Septernber.," 14 Sept.1914;
andQuadtto AA, 13Sept.1914,PA/WKNr.ng/Bd.2.Forthedutiesandpositionof
Shaykhal-Islam,see Yapp, 377.
54.Oppenheim,"G.A.,"25 Oct.1914,NARA/T-137/138/0376-77;MoritzroGeorg
Grafvon Wedel(acounselorintheAA'spoliticaldepartmentandaide-de-campof
the kaiser), 30 Oct.1914,PA/WKNr.ng/Bd.3;andPrufer,"Krieg," 30 Oct.1914,HIWRPI
PruferPapers. Also seeDonaldM. McKale,"GermanPolicyrowardtheSharifofMecca,
1914-1916,"TheHistorian,55(1993):306.
55.SeeSektionPolitikro itscommandunitintheVIArmyCorps(Breslau),5 Feb.
1915,NARA/T-137/23/0645;Kroger, 382;andHansDumreicher(a lawyerfromCairo
livinginDarmstadt),"Betriffr:ReiseRohloff," 17 Sept.1914,PA/WKNr.ng/Bd.2.
AccordingroMuller,369,Roloffreceived twohundredthousandgoldmarks.
56.NoteAA roRomeembassy,25,30Sept.1914;andOppenheim,"G.A.," 10 Oct.
1914,NARA/T-137/143/0456-57,0475, °521,respectively.Also, seePrufer,"Krieg," en-
tries for 5,13Sept.1914,HIWRP/PrtiferPapers;andEvans-Pritchard,125-27.
57.Moritzro Wedel, 30 Oct.1914;Wangenheimro AA,15Oct.1914,PAIWKNr.ngl
Bd.3;andWangenheimto AA,28Sept. 1914,PAIWKNr.ng/Bd.2,notingEnverPasha's
agreementwithMoritz'smission.Also, seePrufer,"Krieg,"entriesfor 25,27 Oct.1914,
HIWRPIPrtiferPapers.
58.SuchproblemsarediscussedinSyburgro AA, 27June1915,NARA/T-137/141
- Also,noteWangenheimro AA,27 Nov.1914,NARA/T-137/138/0424.
- SeePrufer,"Krieg,"entryfor 19 Oct. 1914,HIWRP/PrtiferPapers.Although
Kressenstein,55,denigratedHilgendorf'sscheme,helaterurgedusingGermancolo-
nistsinPalestineintheupcomingEgyptianexpedition;noteWangenheimro AA,19
Nov.1914,NARA/T-137/23/or81.Morethanlikely,Hilgendorfsgroupwasthesame
onementionedin SirGeorgeMacmunnandCapt.Cyril Falls,TheHistoryofthe
Great War BasedonOfficialDocuments:MilitaryOperationsEgypt&Palestine: From
theOutbreakofWarwithGermanytoJune1917,15.
60.Nadolny(SektionPolitik)ro AA, 22 Dec.1914;PruferroOppenheim,31Dec.
1914,NARA/T-137/23/0408,0637-38;andWallach,Anatomie,168.
61.Nevertheless,later,duringthespringofr915,theBritishsuspectedGondosof
bombingoneoftheircoastalstations,atAbuZanimaontheSinaiPeninsulasideof
theGulfofSuez.Note"IntelligenceBulletin,"20 Apr.1915,PRO/WarOffice Series
(hereafterWO) 157(IntelligenceSummaries,1914-1921)/file690;PrufertoOppenheim,
31Dec.1914,NARA/T-137/23/0637-38;Prufer,"Krieg,"entryfor 19 Oct. 1914,HIWRPI
PruferPapers;andKress, 55-56.
62.NoteRobinBidwell,Travellers in Arabia,passim;Schwabero AA,13May1915,
NARA/microcopyT-120(RecordsoftheGermanForeignMinistryReceived bythe
UnitedStatesDepartmentofState)/reel4951/frameL367448; Col.OtrovonLossow
(militaryattacheattheConstantinopleembassybeginninginJuly1915)toSektion
Politik,13 Nov.1915,NARA/T-137/2510076-86;Wallach,Anaromie,168;and"Intelli-
genceSummary,"7 Dec.1915,PRO/WO157/698.OnNeufeld'sprewaractivityinthe
Sudan,noteMacmunnandFalls,MilitaryOperationsEgypt&Palestine, 228-29.
63.Moritzro AA,8, 16Jan.1915,PA/Tiirkei165/Bd. 37.
64.GermanembassyConstantinopleroAbyssiniangovernment,n.d.,NARA/T- 1371