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BOOK III
A RAILWAY DIVERSION
Chapters XXIX to XXXIX
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The Germans saw the danger of envelopment, and persuaded Enver to order the instant evacuation of Medina. Sir Archibald Murray begged us to put in a sustained attack to destroy the retreating enemy.
Feisal was soon ready in his part: and I went off to Abdulla to get his co-operation. On the way I fell sick and while lying alone with empty hands was driven to think about the campaign. Thinking convinced me that our recent practice had been better than our theory.
So on recovery I did little to the Railway, but went back to Wejh with novel ideas. I tried to make the others admit them, and adopt deployment as our ruling principle; and to put preaching even before fighting.
They preferred the limited and direct objective
of Medina. So I decided to slip off to
Akaba by myself on test of
my own theory.
of Medina. So I decided to slip off to
Akaba by myself on test of
my own theory.
