T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 342

LH 9/13/42 Cairo (stamped) Arab Bureau, Cairo 22.12.16. To Col.C.F.Wilson Dear Colonel Wilson Many thanks for the supply note. I cannot suggest anything to add & or subtract. I only hope they will accept it in Egypt to act on it. I am sure that the thing to avoid is ... lying the British Staff and activities in the ...... I am your in the last night, and you will be here probably on the 25th. or 26th. I will arrange to meet you, but I hope there will be any profit in doing so, to run up at first to detail ... so put you an fait with his findings. The strategical centre of the Turk anti-Faisul operations is Bir Said. They threaten his rear and his base from it, ... he cannot cut Wadi Safra or go for the Railway until it is any sort of security. ... cut Wadi Safra or go for the Railway until he has either captured or secured it. He has no troops until he has either captured or secured it - waiting ib capable of containing anything - so he must operate against .... If he takes Air Said the Turks at Hawra will, I think, have to draw back. In the other hand his troops are still quite unfit ....... and he estimates it will take him a week to get the ... work, and he is only going for- Juliana and Northern Harb at work again. He is intensely nervous of a Turkish concentra- tion against Ali. ... resting Ali, and he will probably I keep Capt. Boyle up in all my information, and the situation is to ... be able to explain what is happening here.. The situation in ... mind horribly if the Turks have not got a strong force in Wadi Safra. If they have we will have a cataclysm shortly. Faisul says he cannot get aples into the Wadi, but I hope he will take some informatic intimate and we may find out that wry. The information from the deserter enclosed would be of value to one in formation of the deserter enclosed would be reported to them should ....... There is no Cairo,(Arnur) if it can be got through to them according to ship in sight just yet, though. I have no copy but could repro- duce the matter easily from my notes. ... came from the C.K. at Abu el Naam station on I am hoping great things from the elaborate list of points on which the Railway. We sent him an elaborate list of points which information is required. As for money, I have £50 in gold, which I am using for my own ex- penses and for any intelligence needs. It will last me for months ... present rate! I am glad you approve of the Egyptian volunteers. I was afraid at the present rate exceeding my commission in countenancing it! I was rather exceeding for Will you please wire for 4 locks complete for Gun maxim Converted Mark II to Yenbo? The guns are out of order (two of them) and To be sent to there locks in hand. The two British armourers are there invaluable. The Marcings has got the feed-block of one of the F.A. German Maxims which is going down to Rabegh today. They took it off for 715