ملف ٣٤٤٣\ ١٩١٤ الجزء ٤ "بلاد فارس: شؤون شرق بلاد فارس؛ عملاء ألمان" [و‎‎١‎٨] (٣٦٨/٤٠)

and, thence into Germany. They promised to pay all his
expenses.
The Indian Committee stationed at Berlin looks after all
Indian Prison Camps in Turkey, and arranges for their food
and other requirements.
A large number of Mohammedan prisoners of war asked the
Turkish Authorities to be allowed to see the Sultan. This
request was conveyed to ENVER PASHA, and he arranged that
the prisoners should line up in the streets of Constantinople,
to see the Sultan on a Friday as he was on his way to the
Mosqu§. The Sultan noticed these prisoners, and asked the
officials attached to his Suite to give them some food at the
palace.
Von V/esendonk told me that these Indian prisoners after
having accepted the hospitality of the Sultan, expressed their
sorrow at having to fight the Caliph of Islam. Then they
evidently regretted having taken food from the palace and
thought they would be punished on their return to India.
Von Wesendonk said he was astonished that they should change
their opinions so soon. He expressed the opinion that if Von
der Goltz had lived they would surely have knocked at the
gates of India.
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Von Wesendonk also told me that the Persian Government
was now at Kermanshah under the protection of the German
Flag. The Governor of Luristhan appears to have issued a
proclamation to the inhabitants of his provime ordering them
to protect the country against the English and the Russians.
He said the Germans had made preparations for the winter
campaign in the East, the Turks and the Germans against Eg/pt,
which was to be attacked from three sides; the 4th Turkish
. Army