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25.Maxwell toKitchener, 30 July1915,PRO/WO33/731.
26.MacMunnandFalls,MilitaryOperationsEgypt&Palestine,58-59.
27.WilliamThompson(TheBathClub,London)toSirGeorgeArthur(WO), 28
Apr.1915;andWO toundersecretaryofstateforforeignaffairs,4 May1915,PRO/FO
37 1/2356/54458.
28.McMahonto Grey, 6 May1915,PRO/FO371/2353/61642.
29.LordActon(Britishministerin Bern),"Memorandum,"12Mar.1915,PRO/FO
371 /^2355130791.
30.McMahonto Grey, 23 May1915,PRO/FO371/2356/73973;andMcMahonto
Grey, II Apr.1915,PRO/FO371/2355/46702.
31.SeeBusch,Britain, India,andthe Arabs,62-65, 223-27.Shakespear'snegoria-
tionswithIbnSaudarenotedabove,98-99.
32.Busch,Britain, India,andthe Arabs,218-27.
33.Togolandfell by theendofAug.1914;theKamerunwasoccupiedbyanAnglo-
Frenchuniton 27 September.InGermanSouth-WestAfrica,inter-Alliedconflicts
anddesertionsoftheBritishSouthAfricanforceslowedtheBritishadvancemore
thandidGermanresistance.InGermanEastAfrica,Germanandnativesoldiersheld
outagainstoverwhelmingBritishandimperialtroopsuntiltheendofthe war. Sur-
veysincludeA.AduBoahen,GeneralHistoryofAfrica,voL 7,AfricaunderColonial
DominationI88o-I935,132-33;andByronFarwell,The Great War in Africa, I9I4-I9I8,
esp.chaptersI, 2,7-9,26.
- Seethecomparisonsofbothnaviesatthewar'sbeginninginHerwig,"Luxury"
Fleet,149-58;andJohnKeegan,The PriceofAdmiralty:TheEvolutionofNaval War-
fare,128-36.
35.Wesendonk,"G.A.,"28Jan.1915;Solfto AA,4 Feb.1915,NARA/T-137/138/0526,
0530-33;andSchellendorfftoBethmannHollweg,17Feb.1915,enclosingthememo,
"DieAufteilungAfrikas:DeutschlandundIslam,"16Feb.1915,NARA/T-137/23/0753-
59.RegardingMecklenburg,seeFrohlich,2II.
36.Solf,"Ganzgeheim!AnweisungNr. Ifurdie 1.StaffeldesArabisch-Agyptischen
Erkundungskommandos.,"23Feb.1915,NARA/T-137/138/0551.Theideaofacquiring
acentralAfricanempirewaswidespreadamongGermaneconomicandpoliticallead-
ers,includingthechancellor,BethmannHollweg,bothbeforeandduringthe war.
NoteFischer,WarofIllusions,310-19;Stoecker,"Questfor'GermanCentralAfrica,'"
249-62;Rathmann,StossiichtungNshost,67-73;andWoodrufD.Smith,The Ideo-
logical OriginsofNaziImperialism,171-72.
37.McMahonto FO, 24 Feb.1915;WilfridG.Thesiger(Britishministerin Abyssinia)
to FO, 23 Feb.1915,PRO/FO371/22014,22402;andFrobenius'sreportstotheAA in
NARA/T-137/138/0583-86,588-95,0675, 0680-712.
38.GermanembassyRometo AA,10 Apr.1915;Frobenius,"BerichtVIII,"23Mar.
1915,NARA/T-137/138/0659, 0680-712;andtheAnglo-ItaliannegotiationsduringFeb.
andMar., inPRO/FO371/2227/21045-39613.Darfurwas anindependentstatenotef-
fectivelyincorporatedintotheAnglo-EgyptianSudan;Boahen,23.
39.Fischer,Germany'sAims,194-95;andHerwig,First World War,149-51. Re-
gardingLibya,notebelow, 145-51.
40.Hoyt,208-36;andArabBulletin,33(4 Dec. 1916):509-II, inPRO/FO882/25.
41.Padel toWangenheim,20 Feb.1915,YUL/Ji.ckhPapers/r/zr;andMcKale, "Ger-
manPolicytowardtheSharifofMecca," 307.
