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Show ibs nine in Cruelty, Treachery and Ras cahty Curbed by British Military Police BIG VICTORY AT KUT Picturesque Description Is Given of Fighting on Historic His-toric River Tigris Spe a ab e o Tic T ibune 10MDON De IS 1 he official press bu au 1 as j st g en out a p turesque ount of the a a gn for Bagdai b S Murk Mikes He le r bet the v to ) of Kut and doa s th c ents be f re the Br t sh re o se at tes j hon her up the T gr s 11 o a npa gn in M sof otam a accord ug to he account d ffers beyond all wo is f om e cry other operat on tak ng pla o n the world n th s ear of war It a) be called the n e e 1 of cam IU s for deed f a t h sto and o lern eng neers tc a e o bo be e el h man b u d wastes of J ak w be hangel th n the e o he I resent gene at o no nun th ng at 1 fferent fron tben ,e es a e the e and un k n of the fa r eto Ih pproa h to outh M opo am a es tl rough the Peru a g t an the f teelf s a pn t of tl a ampa gn The lawless aud gnorant tr besn en of Pe s a are be ng rg d an 1 organ zed o p nder Bush re Bander At has and lank b the orstwh le ommerc al trav e ers an 1 on ul of (e man he half w tt i Pcrs an fanat s del be at 1 en o raged to asha.s nato Br t si an 1 Rus an ons lar offi ali n the i o nc al ap ta p To meet and check h s pol cy. eat Br ta n must needs lctach email bod es of troops at harbar lask and Bu h e In each of these places a n a! handful of Ind an troops nder a few Br t sh officers g e peace and se u t to traders fore gners and Per sians al ke Inland the tr besmen roam in anarchy oerler their German leaders on the shore peaceful commerce a protected from their onslaught by these 1 ttle hands of exiles Turn to English On the southern b de of the gulf at Mustat and Bahre n again we find sum ar solated groups n each place holding n check those forces of d sorder and, olence wh 1 the enemy s agents seek to provoke but on the Arabian shore the star of Germany s on the wane the Arab sa lor folk know that on the sea Allemam are no more These Arabs, who cru se as far afield as Zanz bar and find their way to Malabar across the open sea w thout sextant or master s certificate have learned that the flag of German cannot be shown upon the waters or the earth so long as war lasts and the word has gone thro gh the Ara twan coasts that he who would trade abroad must be the fr end of the Ingbz who spo led the slae trade in years gone by and lately stayed the traffic in arms A winding r ver vh ch is restless m ts bed capricious in ts fall uncertain in its rise and sown with shftng shoals and sands is tie sole means of common cat on between Bagdad and the 6ea t is the inevitable 1 ne of supply advance or retreat for the Turks and Br t sh On e ther hand stretcheB 1 nut leis pla n showing a hor zon as level as the sea save for here and there a mound of anc ent ruin a ridge or famt undulation undula-tion This unend ng plain however muBt not be imagined to be of com pletely easy passage for its fa nt de press ons are swamps of nknown shape with bays and nlets wh le at r ght an gles to the r ver banks run dried canals and cuttings w th hard r dges on e ther hand Retreaters Harassed As for the populat on t s base semi nomadic Arab cruel treacherous and rascally as the town influence can n ake it yet predatory with prim t ve Bedawi instinct To these people Turkish corr pt on miugglers and a year s war have brought a wealth of arms and n un t ons w tho t any cohes on or policy the are ne tl er for Br t sh nor Turk on tho day of battle they ha nt the out sk rts of the fight plunder the wounded and stragglers impart a ly harass the retreat of the defeated s de ho st wh te flags oer ther tents and nal e profes b om of unswerv ng fidelity to whoso ever Beems to be n the a-cendant Before the occ pat on of Kut matters were thus Astr de the river stood the Turks on tho left bank three swamps vere 1 nked by cha ns of entrenchme ts braced v th e ery lev ce 1 uowu to the sc ence or the Teuton c engineer on the r ght bank the pos t on was cont nued tl oq al are and prepa at on and so conform ng tself in relaton to the bends n the r ver as to obi ge an enemy en leavor ng to turn t from tho lan Tward s de to mal e a detour wh ch couli not be compassed unobserved n the space of one dark n eht In th s pos t on was firmly establ si ed a force of Turks n mer cally s per or well armed p ent f 11 suppl ed and supported by a greater n n ber of field guns than those aga nst them Am d the d n and thunder of the great war th s ach evement n av pass almost unnot ced and tet such a battle fo el t across a level pla n n the face of pe feet entrenchments moiern a 1 1 e v and n achine mns n an n ap ed o ntry with r mo s of large fo e of host le t besmen menac ng om n n t ons v 11 whe th nes ome tn h asoned o an 1 roport oned a k w 1 in n an als r t tl da after ts occ pat on was as K t of the la before vet w th tl e 1 ff en thit tl e T rks had gone and the Brit ch had come |