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leastthelastweekofJanuary;see"CommunicatedbyIndiaOffice,January26,1915.
FromViceroy,zythJanuary1915.,"PRO/FO882/8/IS/15/2,whichmentionedrecent
telegrams"forinformationregardingintriguesoftheTurkswithBinSaudandtheir
result."
ro,Shakespearto Cox, 4 Jan.1915,IOLR/R/15/2I31.
II."CopyofpartofaletterfromCaptainW. H.I.Shakespear,I. A.PoliticalOfficer
onSpecialDurytothePersianGulfPoliticalResident,January19,1915.,"Arab Bulle-
tin,25 (7 Oct.1916):336-38,PRO/FO882/volume25;andCox toforeigndepartment,
GovernmentofIndia,16Jan.1915,IOLR/R/15/2131.Regardingthe"vague"responses
oftheSharifofMeccatotheTurkishentreatiestohimtojointhejihad,noteDawn,
FromOttomanismtoArabism,25.
- Lacey,II6-q;Busch,Britain, India,andthe Arabs,232-33;andCox, "An ac-
countofthe lateCaptainW.H.I.Shakespear'sMissiontoIbnSaud.December1914-
January1915.,"PRO/FO882/8/IS/15/1.
13.TheGermanaccountofthemarchacrossthedesertis inMiihlmann,89-91;
andKress,45-46,85-90.TheBritishversionis inMacmunnandFalls,MilitaryOp-
erationsEgypt&Palestine,25-36;andWavell,26-30.Also seeFarnie,534-35.
14.Priifer,"Krieg,"entriesfor 18, 20, 22, 25-26, 28-30Jan.1915, HIWRP/Priifer
Papers. Also,noteKress, 71-74,discussinghisconflictswithJemal.Thedisagreements
betweentheGermansandJemalsupporttheviewofTrumpener,Germanyandthe
OttomanEmpire,69-70,thattheinfluenceoftheGermansandAustriansonOrto-
manmilitaryoperationswaslimited.Also,noteFarnie,535.
IS.Priifer,"Krieg,"entryfor 3 Feb.1915,HIWRP/PriiferPapers;Wallach,Anatomie,
193;Woodward,II6;Rathmann,StossrichtungNabost,122-24;andtheotherstan-
dardhistoriesofthebattlelistedin n. 13above,includingFarnie.
16.Thiswaslateradmittedby Kress,75-76,whoclaimedthattheGermanshad
beenmisledbyagentsoftheEgyptiannationalists.
q.PrufertoOppenheim,9 Feb.1915,NARA/T-137/23/0868-69;andMcKale,Curt
Priiier,38. In alaterreporttoOppenheim,hedenouncedtheTurkishofficersfor
lazinessandurgedthatBerlinremovethemfromtheleadershipofthenextattack
onthecanal.SeePriifertoOppenheim,24 Feb.1915,NARA/T-137/24/0274-77;and
Kress, 97.
- F.Elliot(BritishministerinAthens)to FO, 27 Feb.1915,PRO/FO371/2483/
23234;Kress,98-99;Miihlmann,91;Farnie,535;andTrumpener,Germanyandthe
OttomanEmpire,121-22.
- SteelandHart,29-30,32-33;andFarnie,536.
20.SteelandHart,33;Moorehead,43-89;andLiddellHart,ISO-58.
21.See, forinstance,MartinGilbert,The First World War:ACompleteHistory,
136-37;andJames,RiseandFallofthe British Empire,358.
22.Yapp, 276-77;A.1.Macfie,The EasternQuestionI774-I92],59;andFromkin,
14 6-49.
23.TheextensiveliteratureincludesWallach,Anatomie,187;Moorehead,II3-40,
241-73;LiddellHart,159-74;Guinn,48-67;Woodward,64-78;MacMunnandFalls,
MilitaryOperationsEgypt&Palestine,54-58;James,RiseandFalloftheBritish
Empire,358;andHerwig,First World War,154-56.
- Maxwell toKitchener,5 Mar.1915,PRO/WO 33 (ReportsandMiscellaneous
Papers)/731.
