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166 Arab Report and Arab Bulletin, L/P&S/10/657-8.
167 Dardanelles withdrawal. CAB/19 Dardanelles and Meso­
potamia Committee. WO Series C (secret telegrams), and
Kitchener Papers. Also Magnus, op. cil., p. 370.
167 Letter to FB Jan. 1st, CEB.
167 Letter about Gallipoli, Jan. 10th, CEB.
167 Journey to India, CEB, BL and UBL.
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168 Kitchener, Robertson. Magnus, Kitchener.
168 War in Mesopotamia and elsewhere. See History of the Great
War: Principal Events, HMSO, 1922. For an account of the
early battles in Mesopotamia;, together with the inside story
of British, German and Turkish intelligence in the area,
there is no better guide than Lt-Col. C. C. R. Murphy, see
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especially Soldiers of the Prophet, told with the aid of Turkish
intelligence records. Also Wilson, Loyalties, Mesopotamia.
169 Townshend. See Maj.-General Sir Charles V. F. Town-
shend, My Campaign in Mesopotamia, based on own diaries,
cf. Moberly, The Campaign in Mesopotamia, and other
accounts.
169 Gertrude’s arrival in India, BL to FB Feb. 1st, et seq, CEB.
I70 Hardinge’s attitude to Bureau, L/P&S/10/576. Telegram
Feb. 15th, et seq, FO 882 (HRG/15/1).
I70 Visit of Wemyss, Herbert, Lawrence. See Herbert, Mons,
An%acandKut, Wilson, op. cit. Also Townshend, op. cit., and
Murphy, op. cit.
I7° A1 Masri, Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Storrs,
Orientations, WO 33 (Nov. 27th, 1915) Maxwell to
Kitchener.
170 India’s Muslims. Concern of Viceroy, L/P&S/597.
Herbert to Clayton, FO 882, Nov. 7th, 1915.
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Hardinge to Wingate, FO 882, Nov. 28th, 1915.
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‘Westerners’ and ‘Easterners’, views of generals and poli­
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ticians, see Terraine, Douglas Haig, and Private Papers ed.
Robert Blake.
Appointment of A. B. Fforde, L/P&S/10/576.
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Note to Captain Hall, BL.
173 Gertrude to Basra, BL, CEB. See also VC. Gertrude’s
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approval of Lady Cox diminished after 1918.
Impressions of Basra and personnel, BL, CEB.
173 April, to FB, CEB. Also BL April 9th ‘... This week has
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