ملف ٧٠٥/١٩١٦ الجزء ١ "انتفاضة عربية - تقارير" [و‎‎٤‎٦‎٤] (٤٩٤/٤٧٥)

Secondly, as to the improbability of an advance on Egypt,
A reliable source states that Von Jagow informed the Budget
«
Conmittee that, under existing conditions there can be no talk of
a serious expedition to Egypt owing to the absence of a double
railway line through Syria, It will only be possible to make a
strategical demonstration in the vicinity of the Suez Canal,
A later report states that the Germans have refused
Pasha’s appeals for help for the expedition. The blatant
announcements in Turkish and Geramn circles in Constantinople that
the expedition against Egypt has alreadt commenced, with
appropriate details to prove it, seems to bear no relation what-
-soever to the truth.
Further, reliable information has been received to the effect