File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎184r] (376/834)

He has travelled m Asia. Minor, and written a book Hewe
Klemasien ; was one of the conductors of the German excavations
at feamarra; and has long been a trusted buyer for the Museum
as well as a successful collector on his own account. He is married
to a daughter of the late Karl Humann, the excavator of Pergamos.
and long resident in Smyrna, and himself had for some years a house
on the Bosphorus. He speaks English well, as does Ids wife •
but he is a less attractive personality than Andrae. He seems to
have spent an uneasy and unfruitful time on the Persian frontier :
but he is a clever man without too manv scruples, who could be
dangerous.
I rolessor Ferdinand von Luschan, an Austrian physician
icsident in Berlin as Director of the Volkskunde Museum, and a
personal friend of the Kaiser, is one of the Central Committee
for diiecting German propaganda in Turkey. He excavated
Sinjerli in north-west Syria (close to the eastern exit of the
Baghdadbahn from Mount Amanus) more than twenty vears ago.
and he has travelled extensively in Asia Minor and Northern
Mesopotamia, on whose populations he is the leading anthropo
logical authority. He speaks English well and before the war
was often in England where he had many friends. He is a man
of much distinction and charm of manner, whose heart is
certainly more in science than in politics.
ARABIA.
North-West.
Intelligence.
Northern Area.
The main item this week concerns a Turkish railway
inspection patrol of twenty infantry and thirty camel corps,
south of Kutrani station on June 2. The whole patrol is said
to have been captured by the Huweitat. Enemy planes are
imported still operating actively from Kutrani (though there
are no hangars there), paying daily visits early in the morning
and about four o’clock in the afternoon, to Sherif Nasir’s camp
in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. H asa. Feisal again asks for help from the K.A.S.
His former request (see p. 177, where Kalaat Aneizah should
have been Amman) was responded to by two vigorous bombing
raids upon Amman station on June 3 and 4. The second
was effected by the largest number of machines (nineteen)
which have yet flown in one formation east of the Jordan.
Besides numerous direct hits observed during both raids on
camps, dumps, station buildings and permanent way, a hangar
was hit and collapsed. A subsequent air reconnaissance
established the fact that great damage had been done all round.
Three, if not four, enemy planes have been put out of action in
this region lately j one made a false landing near Kutrani and
was burnt by its pilot before his capture.