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been greatly enlivened by the appearance of Mr Lawrence,
sent out as liaison officer from Egypt... *
i74 I-Iirtzcl to Viceroy, L/P&S/10/576.
174 Viceroy to 10, ibid.
174 Kut-al-Amara. Townshend and Murphy, op. cit.
176 Lawrence and Herbert. Viceroy to London, conveys mes­
sage from G.O.C. Force ‘D* May 22nd. L/P&S/10/576.
Also see Wilson op. cit. and Herbert op. cit. and Moberly,
The Campaign in Mesopotamia, which recites events without
comment. According to latter, move had Cabinet approval.
176 Viceroy to London, L/P&S/10/576.
177 Iiirtzel minute, ibid.
177 General Lake’s telegram, ibid.
177 Hirtzel’s comment, ibid.
177 Chamberlain. Dee. 29th, 1915, see Robbins, Sir Edward
Grey.
i77 Lloyd to Wingate, FO 882: Hijaz Rising, document HRG
16/9.
178 Letter to FB, UBL.
178 Nasiriyah and Basra, May 1916, UBL, VC, CEB.
178 Edmonds, author of Kurds, Turks and Arabs.
*79 GLB Correspondent of Bureau and Arab Bulletin. L/P&S/
10/576 and L/P&S/10/657-8.
*79 Communication with Ibn Rashid, BL, GLB to HB, May 4th.
*79 Lorimer, Shakespear, Leachman. L/P&S/10/515-17 (Per­
sonnel), L/P&S/18, L/P&S/10/506-11.
180 Abdul Aziz bin Abdurrahman bin Faisal al Saud, Ibn Sand.
A highly unreliable intelligence report from Basra to DMI
Cairo, week ending March 1st, 1916 (L/P&S/10/585) and
included in Arabian Report, March 12th, 1916, based on
information supplied by Political Agent Bahrain, source
Dr Harrison, American Mission.
181 Hogarth, L/P&S/10/586.
181 Van Esses, CEB, pp. 36-9, Vol. 2. See also Van Ess,
Pioneers in the Arab World.
182 Al Khatun. See review by Cox of Rihani’s Ibn Sa’ood, GJ
Vol. 71, 594 (1928). Cox did not speak Arabic, however,
and Rihani’s translation is the more accurate.
183 Philby, see own works and Monroe, Philby of Arabia.
183 Reader Bullard, BL, CEB.
183 Armenians, L/P&S/10/586 document 4121/16.
184 Arab Revolt. FO 882, and L/P&S/10/586 vide Holderness,
Feb. 25 th, 1916. ‘I have never seen any evidence that a
strong Arab state ... is within the bounds of possibility ... *