Military Operations: Egypt & Palestine, Volumen 1H.M. Stationery Office, 1928 |
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159th Brigade 3rd L.H. Brigade 52nd Division 53rd Division 54th Division 5th Mounted Brigade advance Arab Arish artillery attack Australian Battalion Battery Battle of Gaza Battle of Romani Beersheba Br.-General Brig.-General British Camel Brigade Camel Corps captured cavalry Chauvel Chetwode Colonel temp command Deir el Balah Desert Column despatched detachment Divisional Dobell east Eastern Force Egypt Egyptian El Arish enemy enemy's evacuated Field Ambulance fire flank Gallipoli garrison guns headquarters heavy Hejaz Hill Hureira Imperial Mounted Division Infantry Brigade Khan Yunis Kress Lieut.-Colonel Light Horse Lord Kitchener Machine-Gun Magdhaba Major temp Major-General Mansura March Matruh Maxwell miles mounted troops move Muntar Murray N.Z. Mounted Division officers operations orders Palestine patrol position Qantara Qatiya Rafah railhead railway Regiment reinforcements ridge rifles road Romani Section Senussi Sheikh Abbas Sherif Sinai Sketch Sollum squadron Suez Canal supply Turkish Turks Wadi Ghazze Yeomanry Zealand
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Página 219 - His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non- Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
Página 20 - ... near Aleppo, by the Syria-Arabia branch line. But as, at the moment, there were neither men nor material for such an enterprise, the matter had to rest, although the defence of Egypt from without by carrying war into the enemy's country was perpetually in his thoughts. On December 4 Maxwell wrote : If any diversion is contemplated, I think the easiest, safest, and most fruitful in results would be one at Alexandretta. There, if we do not impinge on Russian spheres, we strike a vital blow at their...
Página 217 - Subject to the above modifications. Great Britain is prepared to recognize and support the independence of the Arabs within the territories included in the limits and boundaries proposed by the Sherif of Mecca.
Página 82 - Should the British Government be considering a disembarkation of troops in the Gulf of Alexandretta in order to cut the railway to Palestine, they will have to take into consideration not only the economic interests but also the moral and political position of France in these countries. "French public opinion could not be indifferent to any operations attempted in a country which it considers as destined to form part of the future Syrian state; and it would require of the French Government not only...
Página 7 - CONSUL-GENERAL. 37 of his colleagues, he is in reality, as the exponent of the wishes of what is in reality the protecting Power, the ultimate authority in the country in all those matters — and they are a varying number — which the protecting Power chooses for the moment to regard as calling for the exercise of its control. He is the real, but unproclaimed, arbiter over an administrative area of fluctuating dimensions — no easy position to fill with effectiveness and without offence.
Página 217 - Britain was free to act without detriment to the interests of her Allies. His Majesty's Government have always regarded, and continue to regard Palestine as excluded by these provisos from the scope of their undertaking.
Página 219 - There is no better proof of the value of the Balfour Declaration as a military move than the fact that Germany entered into negotiations with Turkey in an endeavour to provide an alternative scheme which would appeal to Zionists" ; 4 The Palestine Royal (Peel) Commission, going even further, reported in 1937: "The Zionist leaders (Mr.
Página 317 - Force, to advance with his three infantry divisions and two cavalry divisions, I have no doubt that Gaza could have been taken and the Turks forced to retire ; but the reorganization of the force for a deliberate attack would have taken a considerable time, the horses of the cavalry were very fatigued, and the distance of our railhead from the front line put the immediate maintenance of such a force with supplies, water and ammunition entirely out of the question.
Página 200 - ... almost waterless area. This great outflanking movement of von Kressenstein's, which had been planned to finish before the heat of the day, was still two miles from its goal, and the Turks were almost completely played out. Nevertheless, it had moved with greater speed than some had thought possible. " The result of the somewhat rapid advance of the Turks from the south was that General Lawrence was obliged to divert the cavalry, originally destined to operate against the enemy's rear, to strengthen...
Página 211 - The Sultan Abdul Hamid, whose dearest project it was, saw in it the consolidation of his authority; Germany looked forward to controlling through him Western Arabia, to threatening British communications in the Red Sea, to decreasing the political and military, and even (though to a much smaller extent) the economic, importance of the Suez Canal.