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OBJECT OF THE WAR IN MESOPOTAMIA."

INDIA BEING DEFENDED AT BAGDAD.

mer!--That-is-exactly what has been depots we bave destroyed and fill them happening in Mesopotamia. Our early up with the necessary food, stores and troubles arose mainly because we bad munitions, a slow and toilsonie Dosiness- no railways and could not obtain suffi- when he is dependent ppep river-borne cient river steamers our communica- traffic. cations were, in fact, bed. Now We

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GENERAL MARSHALL'S PLANS TO Set there frit with, the most men.

FOIL THE ENEMY,

BY MAIOR-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK

MAURICE

GENERAL MARSHALL'S, FLANS.

purpose, these successes will certainly More important for our immediate have an effect in Persia, where wavarters may well have begun to doubt whether the collapse of Russia. had not brought with it as grest a menace to our position" West. in the East 38

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At will be remembered that early in the year General Marshall struck with his left on the Euphrates and occupied in, formis as effective abar to active mili- The hot weather which is now setting Bit: then, after a pause, he attacked the tary operations as the winter and in Turkish Force holding Baghdadie, about Flanders, and neither the Tork nor the While we are waiting for develop-pletely annihilated it, capturing over It therefore, will not be surprising if we twenty miles apstream of it, and com- German like it more than our own men. ments in the West there is time to turn 6,000 prisoners. Our pursuit carried as do not hear much from this part of our eyes to the East. It would be pro is a nearly 20 miles north-west of the world for some time to

Baghdad, and enabled us to destroy all the least of the advantages we have fitless to re-open the sury of our the considerable preparations which the gained by our recent efforts is that we first ventures and garly failures in enemy had made for an attack upon as have occupied a portion of the Persian Mesopotamiu, present interest centres in by the Euphrates Rac.

foothills which give us healthier country for summering our troops than the plains what we are doing there now. Speak

of Bagdad can afford. ing in the Boase of Lords on April Lord Curzon said: We are an Eastern as well as a Western Power and the pillars of our dominions are planted at Delhi and Cairo no less than in these islands. We were drawn into the Mesopotamian campaign by the necessities of Imperial defence. That means that we are defending India at

The Liermans have suffered no more grievons illusion in this war than the

a series of rapid and successfulmorzow will hardly disturb the repose one which arose from their belief that blows, which have resalted in the of the author of Das Kapital, for he our Engue was a rotten tree, the capture of more than 1,200 prisoners left the land of his birth-though not of branches of which would fail as the first and twelve guas, he has practically his race-after the abortive revolution of

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cause us grave the north-east of Bagdad. We have fruitful years of his literary labours in

expected, to nesist. the outbreak of occupied Kitri, with its valuable coal London. It was in the buspitable rend revolt in all three. The splendid Kirkuk to the lesser Zab, et the point wrote what has become the Socialist nines and have pressed on through ing-room of the British Museum that he and unswerving loyalty of par Dominions where the road to Moen crosses that and Dependencies has brought these river susic 80 miles south-east of the bapes to nothing as much as have the latter town. successes of our arms in the more distant Theatres of war,

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HOT WEATHER SZAKON. We now learn that our cavalry have advanced up the Tigris to the rapids of Yet as regards the enemy's attempts Fattal, 130 miles north of Bagged, on India, we have had and still have our about 15 miles below the fractiory of the anxieties. Before Maude eztered. Bag- Tigain and the Lesser ab. We have by dad, and, by joining bands with the theso Auccesses cleared's wide circle Russiana, established an effective barrier round Bagdad. Before attacking us in against the enemy's

trate further East. Gempts to pene-force, the,, enemy, being.,without rail.

agonte, and ways, must re-establish the advance hands under German leadership, had ntered Persia frooly reached the frontiers of India, and even

penetrated

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Representatives: Nagasaki, Karatan, water; Mesi,

With the Kure, Kobe, Osaka, Tsuruga, Nagoya, establisher on the frontier of Parala collapse of Russia the barrier

Yokohama, Tokyo, Hakodate, Muroran, | broke down, and the road to Turkish Otaru, Vladivostock, Peking, Tientsin, and German ambitions was again open.. What have we been doing to incet this Dairen, Teinaufa, Hankow: Shanghai.menace? Maude's policy after be Taipoh, Hongkong. Canton. Haiphong, entered Bagdad was to use bis central Manila, Singapore. Calcutta, London position to strike out right, left, and centre, at the enemy as he got his chanco. In a country in great part desert the enemy a lines of advance are limited to tho water ways, which. -converge on Bagdad; the Dials coming down from the north-cast and the Ferian frontier, the Tigris from Mosul and the north, the uphrates from the direction of Aleppo and the north vest.

With lines of railway running uP each of these river valloys from Bagh- dad, we have been able to strike swiftly and

against an enemy who,

with

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