"تاريخ الحرب الكبرى استنادًا إلى وثائق رسمية. الحملة في بلاد الرافدين ١٩١٤-١٩١٨. المجلد IV". [ظ‎‎٦‎٣] (٥٤٠/١٣١)

UMP
96
HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
During the day the casualties in General Cavlev’s ^
totalled 157, of which the 37th Dogras lost 65 y the 9/12
Gurkhas 46 and the 5th Wiltshire 29. We took about
pnsoners, but little in the way of supplies or war material
In the meantime, the Turkish force facing the Caval
Division to the westward of Umr Maidan had shown 7
signs of retiring and our cavalry had been unable to find am
other passage through the hills. In the evening of the
General Marshall ordered both the Cavalry Division and +2
Illrd Corps to withdraw next day, the latter to an advan d
hne extending from Khaniqin through Qizil Ribat to the
Sakaltutan pass. This withdrawal was effected withont
special incident. nuout
Between the 3rd and the 6 th December our total casualtipc
amounted to 29 killed and 190 wounded and th 0 i '
Bicharakoff s Russians, who had done good work on the two
days they had been engaged, to 9. We buried 87 dead Turks
and captured 255 prisoners, 2 guns, a machine gun and other
war material. The 1 urkish wounded were estimated at over
two hundred. Although the loss we inflicted on the enemy was
n 0 L aS fl g 2 at aS -*f d ^ een ho P ed for > we had strengthened our
nght flank considerably. It was felt that in future the Turks
would expenence great difficulty in conducting offensive
operations against this flank and also in carrying out S
plans for a penetration by small forces into Persia.
On the 1 st December the Commander-in-Chief in India
telegraphed to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff that
tn M 6 arr ^ n ^ eme ^ t s to despatch units of the 18th Division
to Mesopotamia had been completed, he proposed to start
bv e H r s m MaW ' V 9th DiviSi0n f0r em P lo ynSnt as desired
General S ^ over " m e nt - The Chief of the Imperial
Ma cou d Xe f 6 3rd that the T ues tion of how best
maia could give further assistance had already been under
consideration and he hoped to send a full reply in a few days
follows ""russ^ he Sent his Views 0n the generaI situation as
had ereatlvTnlreLS aCe n / ov " men t “d the Italian defeats
of effort more nee 6 ° Ur an d rendered concentration
Britain and Frane ever ’ n Europe, where Great
sucSses .n F m " ^ eaCh S ! nt Six ^visions to Italy. Our
concentration ^® sop °t am ^ a and Palestine had rendered this
Genera ^ [? Slble u and the Chief of ‘he Imperial
au 2 thou ght we had over-rated Turkish nnwer
doubteddthivhad 5565 ‘ he Turc °-Genuan plans, he
bted if they had ever been as formidable as reports indicated;