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(b) Naval Sources.
1. H.S., Vols. 6 and 46. These volumes contain
papers relating to Mesopotamia up to the 13th December
1914, viz.:—
(a) Collection of documents relating to Persian
Gulf. (Letters and telegrams, including such India
Office telegrams as were forwarded to the Admiralty
for information.)
(b) Despatches of Ambassador, Constantinople.
(c) Telegraphic Correspondence of Viceroy.
(d) Letters of Proceedings of S.N.O., Persian
Gulf.
(e) Certain military despatches.
2. Other miscellaneous papers, telegrams, military
despatches, river craft papers, &c., relating to Meso
potamia and the Persian Gulf from 13th December 1914,
onwards.
3. "Mesopotamia River Operations, 1914-1917."
Report compiled in 1919 by Capt. W. Nunn, C B. C S I
C.M.G., D.S.O., R.N. ' ' '
This Report, which comprises H.S., Vols. 204 (Text), 205
(Appendices), and a ^ olume of Maps (not numbered), contains a
record of the operations from the date of despatch of sloops to
Mesopotamia to the cessation of operations at the beginning of
the hot weather in 1917, after the capture of Baghdad.
The report appears mainly to be based upon Captain Nunn's
(who was S.N.O. during the greater part of the time) reports of
pioceedmgs and the military despatches ; though it is not
always in agreement with them, it is of great value as a
supplement to the Reports of Proceedings.
4. The Naval Review, Vol. HI., No. 3, and Vol. IV., No. 15,
has an account of the operations up to the battle of Ctesiphon,
which brings out a few points of interest.
. descriptive, <S:c., geography of Mesopotamia is dealt
with m the following Admiralty publications
Handbook of Mesopotamia," (Vol. I., November 1918,
I D. 1118 A.; Vol II., 1917, C.B. 294 ; Vol. III., Sup
plement, June 1918, C.B. 295 A.)
" of Mesopotamia and its Borderlands," May 1918,
JLI. 1177, Cap, VIII., Part II., dealing with the Persian-
Mesopotamian oil-field.
" Monthly Intelligence Report," July 1919. Article, The
Anglo-Persian Oil Supply.
" Persian Gulf Pilot," which gives an account of the rivers
and tneir navigation.
" ^the^ Jehad^ Pan " Tliranianism '" I - D - 1199, explains