WAR IN MESOPOTAMIA.
THE TIGRIS FLEET.
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THE LIONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY APRIL 1919 1916,
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A FEMININE MODIFICATION.
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Private Howden compared The first line of transport, se very journey with the crowing experienced on body knows, carries the ammunition and the way out six months earlier, and ad- tools sufficient for the day to the army inmitted that the less a skip pretended to be the field. The accond line carries the day's rations. kit and blankets. The third line is the general reservoir from which the daily issues proceed; it does nos as a rule come under the enemy's fire. With a line of communication 400 miles long the army
is hard put to it which cannot depend on river or rail.
swing on Hampstead Heath the better he liked it.
Hils couirades ridded themselves of the burden of their equipment and made a semi-circle on deck,
AMERICA AND THE WAR
MORE NEWS OF THE BRITISH
ARMY NEEDED.
Sir Arthur Herbert, late y a M fuister in his Majesty's diplomatic jorvies, has res centy arrived home in England from New York, where he and Lady Herbert hat been
THE SUEZ CANAL BARKIER.
TRENCH MAKING IN THE DESERT,
CAMEL AND MOTOR CAR.
[FROM WT. MABBEY.]
If the danger of a Turkisli attack on Egypt is not entirely removed, a serious in invasion is
In Mezopatawin the Tigris aerves as the (After you with that so-called match of of its kind in Amorien an. army large enough to incasute
#Net but what I can always enjoy my.It self he mentioned in good old Londan at "yours; Claudo. Tliero's one of the things they do a jolly gight wiser over where we're all bound for. Not so much perfume, but more illumitation,) I've got the evenings of my leave to look forward to, and each one of 'em is all plansed out and arranged so that there won't be a single moment jest, When we sit again, early next week at Victoria, my word, but I shall have some thing to tell you of Pd
He chuckled and shook his head gee. fully, but noting that some of the others were about to speak, held up his hand as a signal for attention his hand a
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The Turks and the German Da leri. may have intended a deacent on kön but the well-grounded fear that full pen toclive neatures have been taken aguna them nach the diga šey at Erzerum hay: pre; sumably caused a change of plans. That at least the coun sinn formed by the absence of ind cations of enemy auítily at in time. When the picciniz dans of inderate temperature are breon ng fener There may be sporadic attacks by unl parties bub n serious effort to reach the Suez: Candl is practically impossible this sensor
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Interviewed on his return to England, Sir We with our access to the sea can increase
Arthur suid & would not be advisable for and replenish our river transport inde-
him to discuss politics or American opinion finitely, whereas the Turk mast carry on
with regard to the war Thore is one with his present fleet. He has Eve large
thing. I would like to say, however," he add- rivera north of Kut-el-Amara but
ed, and that is, that the American Press these can only carry as far as his huse at
are very anxious to have what they call Shumran, five miles north of General Town.
stories) of the work of the British Ariny shend's position which commands the river
in the fed and clsewhere, and of events and cuts big line of communication south.
happening in England. The upply of such From Shumran supplies are conveyed to
stories now exceedingly limited, in the troops on either bank of the river by
fuct practically non-existent : On the other camels and donkeys. As regards rations
hand, an enormous number from German the country is nearly if not quite self- “I'm not filce some of you bounders, sources are being communicated to the supporting. Troops and equipsaents are Rowden went on. I had the presence of American Press, and everything posible is
ENELY'S HERCULEAN TASK. carried dowstream to Baghind from Mosul, mind to be born in London; I took the beng done to maintain this interest of
as far north as Seziram, on kolks, the opportunity to go on living in London, America in events happening on the German months ago were sufficent to break the Having sees the defeners wireh 13- grent skin rafts of the Tigris. These are and I knew the show from beginning to side. The imaginat cn of Americans is like-effort of 15,000 Turks to cross the Canal, Broken up Baghdad and the skins gold end. From start to finish. From A to rise being stimulated by cinematograph re- I make bold to say that a quarter of a ma `or conveyed back by inad, To supplement Applezand. From north to south and cast
his river transport the enemy has his rail-west. If thy of you chaps want to know presentat ons of the doings of the German lion of the enemy have Tesa chance totiv way running north of Baghdad ninety anything coscerning London, you come toy, all of cours inspired by German The enemy have not the fainte propre miles to Samaram, beyond which there ise. Don't ask nÒ, ORG
of sending such an army against us. The NETH. INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO, "the gap of some, 360 mileg across the desert ther'11 mislead you or otherwis propaganda which has recently been very
active in this way and also in trying to Canal and Egypt are perfectly secure
Indeed it is doubtful whether any part influence public opinion politically.
Sir Arthur readily gave na recount of the of the European betile font is so saf: from: war relief fuel which his wife, and he lure the results of attacks. If it has been acce organised. Much is known in this counsary for Great Britain to make a vast try already, he remarked, about that expenditure in money and labour to secure marement, which has sent gifts of cething the freedan of Lie a atorway connect ng to British soldiers in the trenches and large the seas East and West the expendi quantities of hospital supplies to both ture is insurance premium that no
Home England and France, and also several am- bulancs ete. Lady Herbert, as president of the society, has received a large number
to the railhead at Ras-el-Ain. Until this line is complete and the tuane's driven through in the Taurus and Amanthasnoun- tains, that is, for an indefinito length and time, the advantage in the transport of troops and equipment must be with us.
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THE SHILLING STALLS. withs the present fleet is not equal to that
"Thot," he admitted, is a bit off the of a single line of railway with an average map so far as I'm personally concerned. supply of rolling stock, but it is increasing When I patronise a place ef entertainment in proportion to the development of the
Now, take ampaign. The river with sufficient craft my idea is to be entertained. and the traffic well regulated would have my own case. I shal reach my baronial of letters of thanks from officers and me nothing to sustain un artoy except what cortain advantages over a railway, offering mansion orth-East, sometime in the course Octobre last slow that goods to the amount at 17, Juniper rond Kentish The results of our first year's work to fewer vulnerable points and demanding minimum of troops for guard duty, but the of the day. I have a clean up and a change of about £80,000 had been forwarded to
Prudence prompted our Command to con. aiding difficulties of the permanent way and then I say to the wife What about various destination, in Europe, but I have ruot numerous light railways on the would have their parallel at low, water the first 'ous at the Bedford? Is there no doubt that judging by the results of the eastern side of the Canal, and to lay an in the narrown, especially between Qarnah a pretty goal bill on there this week 1 folowing five months working the output elaborate system of pipe lines for the water and Aura, where it is dificult for ships And the wife makes answer that there's will be doubled during the coming year. Supply Unless the Turks make milar The Americans have shown great sym-arrangements over 10 times the mileage, to pass. Up to Qurnah the Shat-el-Arab So-and-so and So-and-so and Se-and-so end
So-and-so. led in this suggested a pachy with the aims of the sagitty, now nd they canne, bring on aruty equal in suit is navigable for ocean-going steamers of a certain draught. Above it vessels draw A youth remarked that this suggested amitted to be one of the best organised in bers to that which they have to weit: no ing it, or 5 ft. of water are frequently rather monotonous programnio held up and except in the food serson one" At ten past six," continued Private America. It is impossible to say too much keep them opposite our lines for more than has to tie up at night. These lot tiver Rowden, gazing out at seu dreamily, in praise of to work of the American ladies two days, even without a shot being fired rest: 1 craft ko pieturesque fort with their we're a-sitting in the shilling slak's, as selves with the fund. At dos ante ut our preparations are planned to rest
any high forward sloping mast, huge ridder, large as life grid twice as natural. jateen sail, and cutaway prow pointed and got a cigar luck in my face. A real society is doing gifts from every State the most serious attacks tant could in
We have stores carried miles into the de barbeit. They are painted like the Chinese cigar, mind you, not one of those we've been in the union Large supplies of warm creumstances be made against Egypt THE
by rapid little treins, and a hindret jook, but with Arab designs of the zodine, accustomed to have given us over on the clothing and hospital necessaries of all sor generally white on a ground of green or other side. We join in the choruses. We have been sent to England, Belgin,ties of metaled roads onde for wheed red or yellow. Eneh boat entries a large caductor.ge out in the interval and expenses are absolutely all People of Brried far in the desert air, but even the
chalf the people in the boxes. We guy the France, and Serbia, The administrativ transport. The ham of the motor is uaf clay oven like an ant heap and the poop. is boarded over for the crew. They have have a fond. I come back and I put my fish descent everywhere have rallied to our hein compared to the Nile dahabiyah, but arm casually round the wife's waist and will." I am told they are more after the pattern I look on as the remainder of the perfor of the nugger of the Sondan. They are ance; and challenge you" Private wild piratical-looking craft rude and Rowden's voice became argumentative
of you to say that, at primitive as the Arabs who navicate them. I defy any one and they would lend themselves well tents with od Joffor or the Prince of well to that moment I'd be inclined to change llustrations of the Sagas.
We shall be out The mabaita carries anything from Wales, or anyone else. fifteen to seventy tons. She ena make ten into High-stress before nine, and the pubs. miles a day towed against the current, and don't cluse til the half hour. No doubt four to six knots an hour with a following our educated friend Claude, here, will say wind. The bulk of this invaluable fleet it ain't a very intellectual way of spend- The amwor to which is with us, and only an inconsiderable panting an evening, is in the hostile gone north of Ku-el-area tie remark is that it's my way of “Amara,
spending an evening, and that's dashed well all about it 1
The Arab name for the long, arrow, canoc siapod boat of the country, the gon don of Busra, is the belli. It is punted
or paddled, preferably padded cording
during the amphibious phase of the cam
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SOMETHING IN A TANKARD.
In the train, after disembarkation and
DIPLOMACY AND THE BALKANS,
CANDID VIEW OF WHY BRITAIN FAILED
of almost every modern appliance for speedy locomotion is not sufficient for out purposo. Ware long clouds of dust raised on the roads by helf-propelled vehicles tell the story of an up-to-date transfo service, you see camel train), moving a in Pharaoh's time, larger perhaps than ever before in history, carrying different. loads, but in the same slow, methodical fallow-my-loader way. This curious b'end of ancient and modern transport is neces pary and desirable in order to bring to To get an adequate idea of the course of the service of the Army every pass b events in the Balkans it, important to means of carriage, and it is due to the em remember that a 1 the nations, ru'ers, war-ployment of all available resources that riors, and insurrectionaries have from fire stich astonishing defensive works have to last been pawns on e chessboard mari. been completed
What by the diplomatists of Europe mid the
the system of dolenços is an Hon W. Pember Reeves, speaking on tha be indicated. Luy the very good reason the Balkans at the London School of Ecoronica the enemy would like to know. But it is recently,
certain that if ever there were any chancos of a Turkisi success they have completely vanished, d
Europe hogan to interfere in the Balka ́s 300 years ago, and she was interfering now. Roughly, the interference of
itself or to prevent some other great Forer getting something. Consonal wa elfishn's, had been shown such as Mr. Gladstone championship of Bulgaria white Sir Ed
mits not
VETERANS FROM GALLIPOLI. During my visit to the front line of de
to the depth of the water. The martist bustle at the harbour, Rowden was able to
tion in the word was reduplicated sustain his position of authority by reply
wished
London paign when the craft were refereed to in one of thinqurd to cro officiel) despatches. asar-bellum.? was able to give the number of the They wore collected and used for conveying omnibus to be taken. A few desired to buy greet Power was either to get something for fence was much jurpres,ed with the char infantry to the hissant of the carmy's presents to be taken home, he furnished prition. When the Arab benteu decamp the nines of appropriate shops. Use wart ed our sepover were trained to punt ored a good quero fod, with a beef sloak paddle. In the fouled state of the entry off the grand southing in a tankard durlug the advance up the Tigris in May Howden gave him a choice of six establish- ward Grey's po icy, criticised though it and June everything depended upon the ments, with a sworn guarantee of the rben, was mitin, y dictated by his whiteru days in Gallipoli. Some had held on bellum, It was the sumo of Shaiba who excelenensong he remarked on to English diplomacy in the they carried General Melliss brigade to
The of Thinking it ever he remarked pen- the scane of action; and again in July sively to sure that I feel particu- Falkans during the last 10 years since we when General Gorringe's column danood larly keen on a had, this evening. There'll gave up the policy of besting up Turkey, up the Euphrates from Qurnah gore the be a lot to talk about, and watching had not been that it was d shonest on Younger Nations should show the Mother Hammar take to Suk-Eh-Sheyukl-Nasi- firiyah. But the bellum play's no part in parties danes and monkey around genera.- fish or that it was always wrong, but that
ly dcez
ndoubtedly interfere with con- it had not been successful, that sommes the immediate operations; it is escatin ly versation. I inore inoined to take a honestly sometimes through she luck, a down river besta
and pay a few society calls att had alienated nation after notion, pro- single nnt on left in the Balkans who re
in from Phame to the Sundarban, Bo-
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To supplement the paddl steamers: of friends hours. With the exception of one the Tigris river craft have been gathered or two of my own relatives they'll al banco after provizce until there was not e yond question the boat of the most catholic pleased to be me; there will be plenty to spected or trusted England ancestry at present on the Tigris is the and casugh to up up, and I tha1 The was part y b canse of the difficulties enjoy the inabores no end Shan't take of the position, and partly because Eng. Aerial, wall-house boat, half a roplane, the wife, because she's a homas, bird and and had 2011 bo con plainly that he did Its bull is from the Brahmaputra, and it and, is elted, with an air-propeller and a t-she, don't like leaving the baby, god, funt not consider anything that might happen horse power semi.Die a typo orgine. It of a skill on the wheel, if you realize what in the Balkans worth going to war about vonkes, more noise than a minor battle. It I can. I've got no other complaint fo once plied as slikar
boat in Assa; but its owner and navigator land is happy in "pitation and this miracle of private im provisation is now the officially recognised hospital ferry. It plien hourly between the field sibulance on the river bank and
make against her, and if peop', dared to
criticise hur I should settle with them in the compartment in his effort to convey the
ust about two rounds-two rounds would sports highest and best Arily the coast.
"One under the chin, so dodge of
A comrade who had succeeded in obtain the hospital camp It has run the gauntlet 10g a sporting journal mentioned that, ac of shot and shell and wine, and the ad cording to a notice there was to be a great ventures of its navigation between Ctesi-record boxing tournament, commencing si phon and Sheikh Saad alone would provide eight o'clock sharp.
the head, s A swing round with the lef so! A smart bit of side-stepping, sol A reg lar ding dong bang, bang
acter of the work and the enthusiastic our of the troops. In this sector the Division composed of veterans who proved preparation of the lines was given to a their courage add aztial spirit in the to their duties longer than their hea tr warranted because they wished to see the quality of the reinforcements and impres upon then how vital it was that the Country that their stock was true. They
came to Egypt with nerves unshaken, for the Gallipoli ordeals had merg y tempered them. Bu jaundice and other forms of sicknew which prey on troops had lowered their systerns. After recuperating fo three works in a desert ret caup they were ready for fresh trias. Indeed the Divisional Coromander told me that the hows that his men were to prepare and
first line gave them intenz try the best s was heavy and the calls apon their cheer fulness and endurance were great, their health remained splendid. Their work for
the Empire has acted as a tonic and the rate of ackness among these war-worn heroes has fallen to three por 1,000
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material for a bulky volame der Belts That's my mark," announced Private shouting Break aweninge to the saperior to any made in Egypt before storm or the pressure of the sand. Those
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Hired labour is used on railway and road construction, but only troops are baemployed on the defences. For weeks the org long, British and Calowat, dug, levelled, soldiers took part la the scene, sandbagged, and so on until they had pro
can't you?" apd duced a system of earthworks incomparab y initial stages, but prevents damage by Rowden definitely and exultantiv Another bout indigenous
giving pealing for order, to the Tigris cauldron-like gutar of Baghdad, prob
"That'll be iny te epraphic address for this supposed catabataats protesting against Those win watched them were amazed at elaborate trenches wil alaud the ravages ably the oldest vessel in the world. A even pg. If youre going as well, old unfair blon Private Rowden at the end their skil and pride in the work The of fine and of the desert storing Perhaps gular moored alongside the Aerial offers sport, just you call round at my place and sank back into his seat exhaustedly to have done wagn ficently, and in the wholesome fatura excavators for relics of ancient etriking picture in the evolution of I shall be ready to confer upon you the scope compliments on a fire and a realis. of a wonderful in the men see to it that people will come apon the e memorials of Craft. They are reed baskets with wooklenenour of comping Me and you my tie performance. Someone followed with there is not an idler. There is no room for the love free mon to-day have for all that
civilization and progress stand for, uprights plastered over with pitch from lad, we'll paing Krnich Town &
BINDING THE DESERT- scribed the round as bucklers spinn- halls, and a 1 your pottering round visit monton dout German prisoner the bitumen wolls of Hitt: Herodotus de vermilion. Better than all you right a muniory of Mr. George Rober, and this a drone in that hive of bees.
French-making in the desort used to be ing down stream with merchandise Framing friends and making your poor head Nothing, sooling to the general opinion, never ending and heart-breaking. You cut Nineveh to Babylon, each gufar carried a ache by explaining how you just missed exceeded in value and in merit Trivate a hole and the sand filtered in like water donkey and was navigated by two men getting the D.S.M., and reckoning the Rowden's contribution,
Even should the air be still, tiny, part d'es "If we all enjoy, our time,” aid the would drift in, but when the Khasega Arrived in Babylon and the merchandise number of ferman, that you very nearly
Sporting lift man, at he's going to do, blow, as it doo now with the force of a disposed of, the gufer was dismembered popped off. and the parts en rried back overland by the
we shan't do badly. Rowden my child, moderate gale heavily charging the air ** BECONDS OUT OF THE RING ! ? passenger $59. One firet meets with these
watch out for me at 7:30 prompt" with send there comes over the tre craft at Amara, the most northern limit. He stood up and prepared to offer an The call vas made 81 Juniper-road is the paraper and gan-empitcomentas upstream in Tekretorientation
wrist-watch showed the half-hour. Pri dust which quick, fill the laborio
cut holes. This is byd enough In describing the river craft I have said “On my right, gentlemen, Punch Wellt vate Rowden himself suwered the knock
distribute nothing about the navy or the Royal In- of Chalk Farra, en my left. Bai Dixon, of Sorry I can't manage to come song. 1001 and to suilly to be d'an Marine, our advance guard and rar Somers Town Twenty rounds of three he mid quietly. But I've been taking torta sub guard. flail of the Arab mine sweepers, minutes weh No Hiking, please the kid out in his pan this afternoon that the walls of the Fenches will far
ort artillery in battle and general comments of any kind whatever Seconde haven't seen bin, you must understand, and then the whole prev aas exalon wil shick The constitution of the fans nud
sincs he was a year and helf old and now have boes “înd vain, “↑ its immediate activities are a seurt which Private Rowden, sometimes avoiding lost. the wife, at special fagot7. 11 going to may only be divulged after the war and occasionally failing to do so, dodged, let me watch him have his bathl Pioneer Ball,
up and down the restricted gangway of
out of the ring. Time!
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