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Show BRITISH COLONEL TALKS ON FAR EAST Says Mesopotamia Is Center of Commercial Com-mercial World; Pictures Are Interesting. Colonel W.'inllaw Milne of the Indian Pclcnse Forces, lecturing on n propaganda propa-ganda tour of this country for the Lenclit of the Indian' War Koliot fund, entertained nil interested audience at the Hippodrome theater last night with a stirring lecture on Mesopotamia, illustrated illus-trated liy the cinema. Scenes showing the flooded country in the Tigris Kuithrates river valley, where tho Ltritisli soldiers opposed the Turks, were Hashed on the screen. Colonel Milne pointed out that Mesopotamia Meso-potamia is tliu center of t.lie conuuer-cinl conuuer-cinl world nnd that it is the principal object of tlie (lertnan kaiser's avarice. He said it is the most fertile and productive pro-ductive of any region on the surface of the gloho and suggested that its future possibilities are beyond exaggeration. Tho colonel appeared in his Hritish army uniform. .Ho will leave shortly for Peuver. |