The general result of this and the previous operations is
excellent, and has no doubt had a very good effect throughout Egypt and the Moslem world. It is characteristically British that the great Turco-German offensive upon Egypt, including wonderful desert marches and arrangements for supplying the troops with water, which were depicted here as being something which only the well-organized German could -accomplish, ended, not in the capture of the Suez Canal, but in the capture of the Turco-German lines on their own frontier and the actual penetration of our troops into Turkish territory! How we got to El-Arish and what were the arrange- ments for water and transport are, in the words of Sir Thomas Browne, though puzzling questions, not beyond conjecture. It is best, however, at present net to probe into or venture upon any discussion of these mysteries.
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