Embossed postcard of the flag and coins of Persia, with both nominal exchange rates and approximate trade values for major currencies including those of Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria Hungary, the Scandinavian Monetary Union, Russia, the Netherlands, and the United States.
Münzenkarte mit NationalflaggePersia1 Toman à 10 Kran à 20 Schahi à 50 Deinars.Der Deinar ist Rechnungseinheit.Kurswert der Goldmünzen in Kran Silber1 Toman to 10 Kran to 20 Schahi to 50 Deinars.Coin card with national flagThe Deinar is the unit of account.Market value of gold coins in silver KranKurswert der Goldmünzen - Market value of gold coinsAndere Wertbezeichnungen - Other value designationsReverse:Postkarte. Carte postale. Correspondenzkarte. Cartolina postale. Postcard. Levelazö-lap. Briefkaart. Weltpostverein. Union postale universelle. (Universal Postal Union)
"Intelligent leadership seems to be lacking in the [Turkish] Sixth Army in Irak. Halil Pasha is anything but an army leader. After the success of Kut-el-Amara, instead of attacking the British at Fellalieh and compelling them to evacuate at least a part of Irak, Halil Pasha ordered the very influential and shrewd, but tricky and German hating Ichsan Pasha, to advance to Kannikin and Kermanshah to reap cheap and exaggerated laurels against a few Russian cavalry regiments (about five) with a few battalions (two or three). The whole movement to Persia is a mere blow in the air, for success there cannot be durable and in the second place the pressure intended to be brought to bear on Persia, with its unreliable and unmilitary population, has not the slightest effect on the decision of the World War."
Official report of German General Liman von Sanders on the incursion of Turkish troops into Persia. The Turks had besieged a British army at Kut-el-Amara at end of November, 1915, compelling its surrender on April 9, 1916. Rather than consolidating their position, or following up their success with an attack as Sanders suggests, the Turks indulged their expansionist fantasies with an incursion into Persia. The Russians had done the same previously, in part to assist the British in relieving the siege at Kut. Leader of a German military mission to Turkey in 1913, Liman von Sanders subsequently commanded Turkish forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula, in Syria, and in Palestine.
Five Years in Turkey by Liman von Sanders, page 134, publisher: The Battery Press with War and Peace Books, publication date: 1928 (originally)
1916-07-11, 1916, July, Kut-el-Amara, Persia, Sanders, Liman von Sanders
