ملف ٧٠٥/١٩١٦ الجزء ١ "انتفاضة عربية - تقارير" [و‎‎٤‎٠‎٥] (٤٩٤/٣٥٧)

re tched Jarafra on 9th February, so presumably the expedition
from Siva succeeded in its Quest.
On 6 February the force was still at Siva; the Siva road to
and including Gara was clear.
a day or two later a considerable force was moved from
Siwa to Gara.
On 8th February a large camp, four large guns, four smaller
gins and ten machine guns, were reported at Gara. Mohammed
&&leh was expected to take command shortly, and so great was his
prestige that the choice of advancing to Baharia or to Farafra.
lay entirely with him. This, if true, casts doubt upon the
previous assertion of his demoralisation.
Mohammed Saleh seems on his arrival to have decided upon
**aharia, perhaps in order to join up with another force which was
expected there from liufra about the same date*