Show FRENCH BOMB THROWING DEVICE A ap 0 e k vl P gaii AN 0 fo s c I 1 1 43 4 g V I 1 i IP ft N it I 1 0 no of the devices used by the french army for bombs from the trenches CRADLE OF THE WORLD IS SCENE OF WARS WRATH campaign in mesopotamia differs from every other operation in old world CRUEL treacherous PEOPLE british official report tells of E events to bet before the R reversal en tsal at kut Is 8 captured after fierce battle batte across level plain lord london the official presa fues bureau boa baa just given out a picturesque so ac count of I 1 I 1 the campaign tot or bagdad by sir it mark he describe the victory pory of eu hut t old and deals deal 8 with e events e b before star the B british r tish Is reverse me at C chesl test phon further up the tigris he says the campaign in mesopotamia dif tors beyond all 11 words word from every etli tit er at mara operation timi taking place in the world in thus this year of war var it may be called the cinderella of campaigns campaign for in deed if past history a and it modern mi en gindera tell a to tale to be believed the swamps an and w wastes at a of arak will be changed within th the 1 ate of the present generation into something Us as differ ent train from themselves as were at the true mice and pumpkin of the fairy amu story the lawless and ignorant tribesmen of persia at aie being urged red and organ cited to plunder bush bashire border bander ali ah boa bas and jk jask by mo erstwhile commer cial travelers the half witted persian fanatic Is deliberately 1 encouraged to assassinate british a and ial russian min con eular auto officials in the provincial cap atals to meet and check this policy great britain must needs detach small email bodies of at troops at claybar jask unit and bishire in each of th these places place a small handful of led indian i or troops under a few british offic officers e rs give peace and security to traders foreigners and ad persians alike inland the tri tribesmen bustrom roam am in an U archy on the shot shore e pea peaceful c I 1 f u corn m minea merce Is IB protected from t their h ir on slaught by these little bands of ex ile lies on the southern side of the gulf BE at go mu muscat I 1 at and again we fled find elm IEH flat flar isolated groups group 1 in each place holding 1 in check those forces of dis order and ad violence a which aich the enemy a agents sept seek to in p provoke aka but on the arabian shore here the star of germany 1 as on 11 the wane the arab sailor folk it k know r ine that to on the as sea Alle Allema nl are h n no 0 more these arabs arab who cruise be as far field afield Us ag zanzibar and find their way say to malabar across the open sea without sextant or mallor laster s certificate have Is learned arned that the flag of germany cannot be shown upon the wife of if tho the earth so long a as war lasts to and ad the word be has go gone through the ara bian coasts that he who would world trade a abroad b mad must he be the friend of the 1 in ellz 11 who spoiled the slave trado trade 1 in years year gone goes by bay and lately staled the traffic I 1 an fn arms cruel treacherous people A winding riv river or which i is rest restless 1 I 1 in its bed I 1 capricious brict an fn a its to fall U un e ertain certain in its ita rise and sown own with a shifting b efting shoals and sands sand Is the sole menus means of communication between bagdad udd ud d and ad the sea bea it la is the indol able line of supply advance or retreat I 1 for turks talk and it british on either hand bard stretches limitless plain show rut a horizon as level be as the sea save bave tor for here and there that a mound and As int for the population it la Is base bagg eema nomadic arab cruel IT a acial ous one and rascally th the a town tow ind influence ca can a make it ft yet predatory with ties instinct to these people turkish C borrup line ion smugglers and a year a war he have brought a wealth of arms and muni tron without av any cohesion cohe aion or policy the they are neither tor for british nor or on the day of at b tittle tt they haunt the tha fight outskirts of the fight plunder the wounded entitled and ad stragglers impart impartially lilly bar harass the rett retreat t of the defeated side bide hoist white alac flags 5 over their tents and make she professions profession of at unswerving fidel 1 it to whoever heaver seems to be 1 in the ascendant before the occupation of kut kul mat tom were thus astride astral the river stood the turks on 01 the left bank ahr three sear swamps rips were linked by chains chain of if eff fr traced d with every device known to the science of the teutonic engineer engine I 1 on the tight light bank back the paid tum tion was continued c with equal q 1 care 1 erht and prepa preparation and so an conforming iima ft self in relation to the bends in the river as 11 to ible oblige m an one enemy my endeavor or ing to turn it fame the hun landward livard bid side to make a detour which could not be eme compassed reed unobserved in the tha space ot of one dark night might in this position sea w as firmly established mabl shed a force fare of turks numerically an superior per or well art armed pletta plentifully ully supplied lied mul and supported support c it by a greater number of field id g guna t than those against them seven miles in rear ot of this prepared prep ud U d position toy lay the town loan ot of hut aut midway bet between een hut eat and the entrenchments the river was spanned by a pontoon at is bridge on the night nigh t I 1 of support septem be her 27 the striking far force of the tha brit ish army in aesop jay isy six miles from the turkish en entrench tarch ments menta on the night of the the british w were ere in occupation of kul hut with above a thousand the usand prisoners halt half the th enemy emy a artillery t esry and a considerable dereld hii ah quantity out Y a of f ammunition m cou rati 0 in their hands while shile the turkish army was use putting a as large an available space between itself and ad its enemy as the river the tha arabs the swampy and cais would old allo allow amid the din and thunder ot of the great war this achievement may pa pass almost unnoticed and yet such a bet bat lo its fought across a level plain in the face ace of perfect entrenchments in mod 1 it e ern in artillery and ad g guns I 1 in an unmapped country with come rumors of if urge forces fares of hostile tribesmen menacing communications will when he things come to be reasoned out at mid and proportioned rank it well enough in I 1 our annals ami kut kul the dav after it its occupation we was as kut of the day before yet with a ill difference ff the burks lied had 9 gone end and eh th the british had bad emme come the british soldier i and hia be brother brather the tha apa we were in possession now neither either brit briton ou nor indian owe any debt of grat gratitude it I 1 d a to the tha arab tribes men in who ho have plundered w wounded dial mutilated the dead sniped led pilfered all spied led and bet raved there here Is no im I 1 reason why our fighting me men n should he old thell distin gaunt between the in inhabitants habitants of the towns and ad the encampments encamp ments roughly d dress language habits and appear mice ance are 1 I one and I 1 in war or ill the soldier at clr pea has 1 no I time tell let for dice I 1 ethnological be ol 01 I 1 co aff ferencek feren ces and the historical cleW influences es N no justice ties or 1 right t 0 doing LOT dis the british a 0 indian 1 I 1 don not at know that since ja aber far the bat bar precide decide was executed bated by the despair ing 19 harun here al 1 rashid no a me man south curb of bagdad h has stood for justice and right doing that all has baft b been wrong doing from the aga he win me madmun M AI alln for bad bagdad IB 16 the dy day when detest the to manau at I 1 pierced the 1 canals and annihilated by fertile famine a population of 11 bud and the t to a the committee of net union and it progress and ad the c re a who be have thirl thrived ml on intrigue nd ad willemin wit wickedness lemin in he these the later days day all tho he english and ad the indian sen act dier imers la is that his dead comrades bodies aro are stripped and sometimes mutilated that if a troops trooper la lose h his as way alone ra ho he la is little I 1 likely ly to rotor return by lb that t perhaps a bullet but at he has bertg no past his hia own topi or buggar pug garee from a mud d ai wall above which units mutters m a w white it it flag that be haa now and I 1 again to found d tym cumi mm a dear loved fr ad lying I 1 an offense offence ort against the morning light with throat threat cut from er air to ear consequently tor for good or III the word abib Is not one to evoke the gentlest feelings in our soldiers soldier a breast ali this it a digression iv ii necessary to ap p tug pre preci clate ate the manner of the tha occue of kut ent the turks had fled in haste baste our men both bar horkae and toot reached se the town soon after ter they h had a d gone for FIT the list week the T turkish 1 k I 1 b corn I 1 mander had ad been bee maintaining hij afi time prea alge by dally daily hang ings and ad shootings short it am hia he last at act before leaving had bad been to shoot six individual tf for it desertion des artion apa ing or cowardice enter the victors with within so an hour hear the women chaffering ran milk rates dates and aa set limes the merchants merchant were timm I 1 lottering ottering ott ile ering r ing contracts policemen were fe pa trolling I 1 the he dirty little streets street a gov ov arnor was established in an office me tired limit troops were star standing no in I 1 t the a sun while I 1 billets were sought ought for them and it baoit E oat unbelievable of all the tha aral arab mild cultivators lure were dropping in to corn core plain ot a cammin certa horseman horse man who had auld ridden on th through 1 a crop ro 1 of l b beana and 0 ot a supply Y and transport tian sport it I 1 officer who b hed appi had parked d his belongings la in a get gar de den the rule rate of terror it must at no not be supposed that our comin coming evokes enthusiasm re nor our a justice gratitude nor our discipline admire admiration u on to the tha arab mind these are am not the qualities itu tIft of kim kingliness 11 a king kg roust hot rule by terror and ba go guided I 1 tied by caprice read the ch chronicles ri miles of T barl and you will there see I 1 who what kingliness km kin gliness glines was in ind and early diya hajjar when it he ruled IT arak a k said no man must be broad abroad after fit an sundown nd own and presently they b brought 1 I to la lit him a c certain who he b had ad bee been fo found ad asleep in the market place I 1 live in the d desert it and I 1 knew not at of the order 0 most moat auspicious go GOT arnor m a r if you on are telling a if lie you w will il be is e executed it aed and oil burn in h hell and d Mh it you at are to telling or the truth y you u will d die is martyrs martyr death and doell to in paradise replied and ad the chev awed ill the bedahl in p pieces i now nor that sort ot of justice I 1 is t the he zenith month ot of t traditional gov government emment in liek and ad when hen people come with policemen and low law taxation and quiet the then they will ill be regarded as persons whose in motives I 1 lives are as aa inscrutable as their chire actions rut kut Is a dirty tumbledown tumble down insani heard tary little town tow but t the b minaret and the portals ape am signs of grace the they y are Is not at very old yet in design an and it it line they or are as perfect as the best beat work ot of ancient times and ad they signi igni fy that under the cruel and ad filth of ages of neglect fiegle ct and tot mismanagement a e m the arab ile alrea of intellect poetry and art survive aurell where abare the in land n d to la not sodden title with starlit marsh or parched for want of water it is as Is fertile ill a aa I 1 in the cl daa when he the world 8 civili civilization n radiated from it its prosperity so eo with the people deep down under the wil dr bernesa and d chaba h induced by in cen turi aurlea I of evil rule and poverty there that lies Is the capacity which made mad niti babylon persia parthia and again persia perot bud and J lastly BUY the caliphate the coal center ol 01 1 asiatic culture Jo rUs so and wealth |