"Vertraulich!ZurLageam16.januar1916.,"YUL/JiickhPapers/r/jo.Also, see the in-
terestingmemooftheHamburgColonialInstitutetitled"DernaheOrient(Die
arabischeFrage),"Jan.1917,PA/Tiirkei165/Bd. 41.
15.Humann,"Vertraulich!ZurLageam16.Januar1916.,"YUL/JackhPapers/r/jo.
16.Ibid.
17.Wolff-MetternichtoBethmannHollweg,22Jan. 1916,PA/Tiirkei165/Bd. 38.
18.To besure,onmostotherissuesduring1916,includingmilitarymatters,the
OttomansinsistedonhavingtheirwaywiththeGermans.Forexample,theTurks
forcedtheirallies toagreeto a newdiscriminatoryandprotectivetariff,tovoida
numberofinternationaltreatiesfromthenineteenthcentury,andtoagreenotto
concludeaseparatepeacewithourthePorte.ThelatteralsopressedtheReich to
approvetheabolitionofthecapitulations,whichitdidinJanuary1917.Whethera
connectionexistedbetweenanyoftheseissuesandtheStotzingenmissionisun-
clear.NoteTrumpener,GermanyandtheOttomanEmpire,90-98,126-39;andYapp,
271.
19.GermanlegationBern(Romberg)toBethmannHollweg,8Jan. 1916,NARA/T-
136ho/noframe[hereafter"nf"].
20.Solfto AA,17Jan.1916,NARA/T-I36ho/nf;andWesendonk'sletterto Enver,
n.d.,NARA/T-120/4952/L368068-69.RegardingtheappointmentofKhalilBey in
October1915,whichstrengthenedthetiesbetweentheTurksandCentralPowers,
noteTrumpener,GermanyandtheOttomanEmpire,123-25.Lossowhadapparently
beenonleave in Berlin;Trumpener,"GermanOfficers,"35-36.
21.Wesendonk,"G.A,"3 Feb.1916,NARA/T-120/4952/L368080;andWesendonk,
memo,6 Mar.,1916,NARA/T-120/4196/K202424.
22.SektionPolitik,"Instruktionfur die imSudenderProvinzYemen zuerrichtende
Nachrichtenstelle,"Mar. 1916,NARA/T-I37/25/028S-92.
23.Loyrved toWolff-Metternich,26 Feb. 1916,NARA/T-I37/25/0303-05;andDawn,
FromOttomanismtoArabism,34.
24.Humann,"ZurReise EnverPascha.,"21Feb. 1916,YUL/JackhPapers/r/jt;and
Dawn,FromOttomanismtoArabism,34.
- See, forexample,ConstantinopleembassytoSektionPolitik, 15 May 1916
("AnliegendeBerichtedesMajorsFreiherrnvonStotzingenergebenstubersandt."),
particularly"1.Bericht,"15Apr.1916,NARA/T-137/139/02IO-II;and"EmirHusseinand
Jemalin 1916.,"ArabBulletin,94(25June1918):215,PRO/FO882/27.
26."Abschrift.TelegrammdesMilitarattachesPeraNr. 2333 vom11.3.[1916],"to
SektionPolitik,NARA/T-I37/25/0277;Wesendonk,"G.A,"12 Mar.1916,NARA/T-
120/4952/L368130-3I;andDawn,FromOttomanism toArabism,34.
27.See thePorte,"Noticeconfidentielle.,"IIMar.1916,whichtransmittedSyburg's
messagetotheAA,dated12Dec.1915,NARA/T-I37/14/0098-99.
28.AA toConstantinopleembassy,30 Mar. 1916,T-I37/14/OIOO.Rumorsofsucha
tripby RasMikailworriedtheGermansthroughoutthesummer.
29.Dawn,FromOttomanismtoArabism,33.
- Maxwell toKitchener, 19 jan.,29 Feb.,and15Mar.1916;GOCEgyptto CIGS, 23,
25Jan.,25,28 Feb., I, 7, 17 Mar.1916;andGOCEgyptto WO, 18,22Mar.1916,PRO/WO
33/760;"BritishRule in Egypt,"MorningPost(London),15Mar.1916;Evans-Pritchard,
128;andMacMunnandFalls,MilitaryOperationsEgypt&Palestine,123-34. Also
noteabove, 145-51.
