ABSTRACT
At Turin the author was embarrassed by the excessive attentions of an Italian Red Cross officer who pestered him with questions about the Dardanelles, displayed an uncanny knowledge of the British officers, and expressed an intense desire to post his letters. If the fortune of war should be with the author there will be difficult and rapid decisions to be taken. It would be out of the question for the General and the Admiral to negotiate anything on the lines of Sir M. de Bunsen's Report, which would take months of delicate negotiation. This provisional arrangement should include the immediate elimination of the Germans from Turkey; disarmament of all the Turkish forces except gendarmerie; the handing over of arms and arsenals to the Allies; and Allied garrison in Constantinople; continuation of civil administration under the existing system, subject to the removal of officials notoriously adverse to the Allies; disarmament of the forts in the Dardanelles and Bosphorus.
