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A series of minor engagements and skirmishes between the Ottomans and Arabs and the British followed, during which the latter were generally successful, but found it impossible to hold the country far inland. Early in 1916 the Ottomans claimed that the British had been driven back on to Aden itself, and had retreated to within range of the covering fire of their warships, where they had been inactive for some months. Many of the Ottoman claims were greatly exaggerated, and some wholly false. In February 1916, Major John Pretyman Newman, MP, asked in the British Parliament for any information about the fighting near Aden. Austen Chamberlain, then Secretary of State for India, responded that the Ottoman claim of success which had recently been put forward would seem to have been founded on an engagement which took place on 12 January between a reconnoitring column of the Aden garrison and an Ottoman force in the neighbourhood of Shaikh Othman. The loss on our side was one British officer and thirty-five Indian rank and file killed, and four British and thirty-five Indian rank and file wounded. The enemy losses were severe, amounting to about two hundred killed and wounded. The British column was neither annihilated nor defeated, but withdrew when the purpose of the movement was completed, Chamberlain said.

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Nakay702 · ベストアンサー

以下のとおりお答えします。
オスマントルコ軍と英国軍との、戦績の主張に見る違いを述べています。

＞A series of minor engagements and skirmishes between the Ottomans and Arabs and the British followed, during which the latter were generally successful, but found it impossible to hold the country far inland. Early in 1916 the Ottomans claimed that the British had been driven back on to Aden itself, and had retreated to within range of the covering fire of their warships, where they had been inactive for some months. Many of the Ottoman claims were greatly exaggerated, and some wholly false.
⇒オスマントルコ=アラブ軍と英国軍との間で、小さな交戦と小競り合いが続いていた。その間は、概して後者英国軍が功を奏していたけれども、その英国軍は、遠い内陸にその一国を保持することは不可能である、と知るに至った。1916年の早い時期に、英国軍はアデンだけに追い返されて彼らの軍艦の砲弾の射程内に退却し、そこで数ヶ月もの間活動がなかった、とオスマントルコ軍は主張した。（しかし）オスマントルコ軍の主張の多くは、大々的な誇張であり、全体的にかなりの偽りがあった。

＞In February 1916, Major John Pretyman Newman, MP*, asked in the British Parliament for any information about the fighting near Aden. Austen Chamberlain, then Secretary of State for India, responded that the Ottoman claim of success which had recently been put forward would seem to have been founded on an engagement which took place on 12 January between a reconnoitring column of the Aden garrison and an Ottoman force in the neighbourhood of Shaikh Othman.
⇒1916年2月、国会議員*のジョン・プリティマン・ニューマン少佐が、アデン付近の戦闘に関する何らかの情報を求めた。そこでインド担当の国務長官オースティン・チェンバレンは次のように答えた。すなわち、最近出されたオスマントルコ軍の成功（奏功）の主張は、1月12日にシャイク・オスマン付近でアデン守備隊の偵察隊とオスマントルコ軍隊との間で起こった交戦（のみ）に基づいているようであります、と。
* MP：Member of Parliament「（英国）国会議員」の略語。

＞The loss on our side was one British officer and thirty-five Indian rank and file killed, and four British and thirty-five Indian rank and file wounded. The enemy losses were severe, amounting to about two hundred killed and wounded. The British column was neither annihilated nor defeated, but withdrew when the purpose of the movement was completed, Chamberlain said.
⇒我々の側での損失は、1人の英国人将校と35人のインド一般兵員が殺害され、4人の英国兵員と35人のインド人兵員が傷害を受けました。敵損失は甚大で、殺傷された兵員は約200人に上ります。英国軍の縦隊は、大打撃を受けたわけでもありませんし、撤退したわけでもありませんが、機動の目的が完了した時に引き返しました、とこのようにチェンバレンは語った。

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