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AA,20Oct. 1914,NARA/T-1491397/0390,°420;andDoerries,ImperialChallenge,
151.
46.Kroger,380;andFranzvonReichenau(GermanministerinStockholm)to
Zimmermann,25Aug.1914,NARA/T-137/139/047I.
47.ApparentlytheGermansfirstdiscoveredthisTurkishmissionattheendof
Aug.1914;seeWangenheimto AA,30 Aug.1914;andAAtoHamburglegation,19Aug.
1914,NARA/T-137/139/0472, 0454,respectively.Also,noteGehrke,Petsien,vol.l:pt.
1:22-23,60;andVogel, 49.
48.Wallach,Anatomie,169.
49.FriedrichWilhelmvonPrittwitz-Gaffron(anofficialintheAA),"Prorokoll.
Sitzungam 4.September1914;"AA,"Personalbogen,"n.d.;Wesendonk,"G.A," 22
Sept.1914,NARA/T-137/I39/0482, 0484-85, 0578-79;Gehrke,Persien,1:1:24;andChris-
topherSykes,Wassmuss: "The German Lawrence,"45-47.EspeciallyonWassmuss's
returntoBerlinin Aug. 1914,noteDagobertMikusch,Wassmussderdeutsche
Lawrence,29-30.
50.OppenheimtoBethmannHollweg, 7 Sept.1914;Wassmuss,"Gehorsame
MeldungzudemgeplantenZugeturkischerOffizierenachAfganistanunter
beteiligungvonDeutschen.," 5 Sept.1914,NARA/T-I37/139/0538-39, 05II-I2, respec-
tively;andGehrke,Persien,1:1:38-39,62-63.
51.Mikusch,59;Rathmann,StossrichtungNsbost,128;Sykes, 50;andontheRu-
manianproblemforGermany,GerardE.Silberstein,TheTroubledAlliance:Ger-
man-AustrianRelations,1914-1917,chapter2.
52.Wesendonk,"G.A,"20, 22 Sept.1914,NARA/T-I37/142/021O-II,0213-14;and
Gehrke,Persien,1:1:24.
- See"Abschrift.BestimmungenfurdieTeilnehmeranderExpedition.,"2 Oct.
1914;"Abschrift,"9 Oct.1914,signedbytheunhappymembers,NARA/T-I37/I40/0423,
0421-22,respectively;WassmusstoBethmannHollweg, I, 6 Oct.194;HermannConsten
toReinhardMannesmann,2 Oct. 1914,NARA/T-I37/I39/0794-96,0797,0721-25,re-
spectively; Vogel,51;andSykes, 53-54.
- See AA toConstantinopleembassy,21 Oct. 1914,NARA/T-137/I39/0790.The
giftsandletterweresuggestedbyOppenheim,"G.A,"17, 18 Sept.1914,frames0568,
0563-64,respectively.Jagow,however,had"seriousreservations"aboutsendingthe
letter;JagowtoZimmermann, 10 Oct.1914,frame°736.Foracopyofpartofthe
letter,seeFischer,Germany'sAims,120.
55.WassmusstoBethmannHollweg,I Oct.1914,NARA/T-I37/I39/0794-96.
56.NiedermayertoWesendonk,18Oct.1914,NARA/T-I37/I39/0806-II.
57.Wangenheimto AA, 29 Oct., II Nov. 1914,NARA/T-I37/I40/0007,0021;Rom-
berg(GermanministerinSwitzerland)toBethmannHollweg, 30 Sept.1914;Wang-
enheimto AA,4 Oct. 1914,NARA/T-I37/I39/0670,0669,respectively;Gehrke,Persien,
1:1:39-40;andKroger, 376-77.
58.Wesendonk,"G.A," 22 Sept.1914,NARA/T-I37/I42/02I5.
59.ListemanntoBethmannHollweg,22 Aug.1914;andEhlow(Basra) to Hesse
(GermanconsulinBaghdad), 4 Sept.1914,PAfTiirkeiI65/Bd. 37.Accordingto Brig.-
Gen. F.].Moberly,HistoryoftheGreat War Based onOfficialDocuments:The Cam-
paign inMesopotamia,1914-1918,1:77-79, theBritishconsideredfor abrieftimesend-
ing awarshipandahundredIndiansoldiersfromBushiretoAbadantodefendagainst
aTurkishattack.Theoperationwasnotcarriedout,however,for fearthatitmight
