CHAPTER V

I INTERVIEW ENVER PASHA 87

Germanising the Turkish War Office--Halil Bey--Wireless Disguised as a Circus--Enver Pasha Receives Me--The Turkish Napoleon--Something of a Dandy--“If the English Had Only Had the Courage”--“To Egypt!”--Turkey’s Debt to Great Britain--Affairs before Manners--A German Tribute to British Troops--Their Designs in the Suez Canal--German War Plans--Where to Kill Germans--The Baghdad Expedition--German Officers in Mufti.