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EYE-WITNESS'S REPORT.

THE SITUATION,

1ying itself up in leops in the most compli- cated erolutions, the van suddenly wheel- log-round while the rear makes for an opposite point, then converging in a hoop." They wars dark at one tarp, silvery as the next, as the sun caught their underwings through the black smoke of monitor, which they threaded with light.

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The evolutions of our troops on land Delhi, February 9th.-The following has

were obscured by the mirage. We s been received from the Eye-Witness"

Infantry like tree moving, and thought with the British Forces in Alesopotamia:-them a transport train. Other masses

Sheikh Shad, Farmary 13th. In an earlier letter I gave a brief description of the river up to AmarA. Above Amara, the tanks Become even mere barren and desoiste. The reed hats of the nomads give placu to black goat hair tents. Tho scenery is casy

which could be nothing but artillery crased the pontoon bridge ahead of us from the right ink to the left. The mirage does not affect the atmosphere at the bright of a bursting shell; so sente ses the shrapnel and smoke unfolding two or three miles from the bank and wondered if it wera Turkish Artillery oraz owɑ.

to describe-tard caked mud on either sido."Shelling their advance post was the

Srips

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Two p'ants only thrive on this waste. One general verdict. It was not until ter that 「 ཡཱཎཱ realised that the whole force was ab is the Kharnocz, a dreary prickly shrub, a

with the enemy. The guns foot high, its winter has s sickly yellowish had heard had played but a small part in. for the mirage had made, grees, called for want of a better same the acting,

camel-thorn," though it is not the Artillery preparation for our advance

inet etas. comolithora of the North West Frontier og As I write we are

MOVING-ON TO ATTACK A NEW 181Z10, India. The other is the Agcon. & fast rooted, stringy phat, which unlike the and it is not the moment get for a detailed Kharnoog, bonats a feathery leaf and is account of the action and the pert taken: used for fuel. For 200 miles above Amarain it by individual Regiments; in the the palm is a rarity, the few that are seen in meantime friends at Home may care to have a picture of the ground on which we the mad villages are dwarfed and meagre are fighting and where our dead la. On the and bear no eĉible frui

alternoon of the 5th, a little regimental Picture narrow pace between kicking cemetery had been pegged out in the camp. mules and gargling camels, and aminuni tiun libere ca the Tigris bank. In the teamers and monitors. the acow of the distance, seen through the transport Puslit Kush is taking or a faint roke hoe an anticipation of bome sickness. Although from the setting sun. The dead lie still Charts of Sibulin Bay (Sabattix Har the country was but a few days old to most and praceful in their narrow gravel, Lour), Price and all other information of us and much of interest and excitement each in bis dark blanket wound tightly concerning the Port A he hid on application to the Agenta..

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Steam re calling at "SEBATTIK or SANDAKAN exclusively for BILTMPO. HON COAL (either cargo or Bunkers) are oxodipt from payment of all Port charges.

at Sabattik Steamers are berthed along side the Company's starf where there is a aizimum.depth of 27 to 28 feet at low water Spring Tides.

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But at Ali Shargi there is a belt of trees, an unbreken weep of maplo and willow, embewaring a blue domed Arab abtico. when we saw them they were in the full glory of gold. We passed this grave with

round him like a mummy, with his came

in store, we could foreses a time, perhaps | scribbled on the page of a pots book and year, perhaps two years distant, when the fixed to the fold with a pin. Soon the sight of a tree, to nobly fibrous salm, but "Padre" will come and raud the Service over them. The verdure there is the Agoon ng pune Eglish tree with sap in it, would and Kharnoog, sad for a tombstone 1027 stand for the gublem of homeliness, the wooden cross cut out of a packing case

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if there is any graca in us, we will pay a Druid sacrifice to the oak. Two days after passing All Stargi the reinforcements paid their toll.

last birouac for the dead, the wounded of yesterday stand on the bank for 'fact apart, smoking and chatting, watching the shells which burat with the clearera of magnesium wire against the epal and violet. at Ali Shergi the river takes a sharp baza in the West, There is a baasfal bend to the East and here a new feature beauty in these shrapnel flashes, and one lenda variety to the scenery in the Push-ti-forgets that they are making more dead, Kuß hills, a low lying snow rimmed range It takes about two days to get used to these on the Persian frontier, about which clouds things. The crowd on the bank might be hang all day and throw dark abadow on a watering football match; across the river mauve ground. The river approaches there is an actual football rising and falling within thirty miles of the out-lying spare to dasastory kicks.

of these mountains, though the clear atmosphere of the desert makes the distance seem less.

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The ground between the river and the broadsheet. A few hours ago ha was fightHE THIRTY EIGHTH ORDINARY The first (1515) edition is already tuned, hills was the scene of the battle of Sheikbing, as his bandages attest; for the moment 68 Sad. The land is maliciously and fanati-he is far away in other olimer, going rural HOLDERS of the above Company will have are well-known in society and of

ANNUAL MEETING of the SHAREOGRAPHIES of ever 5,000 people callý sterile. Even the Agoon and the

rides with Cobbett, or reading Walton's Kharnoeg come to an end. It is the account of the marriage of Richard Hooker hold at the Offices of WE ONTEST several hundred foreigners asociated with

Fedder's Street, on WEDNESDAY, the the or 24th March of 11.30 A 14, the the Dark Tower, anked earth in the most voice of George Herbert, who tells him of receiving the. Report, and Statement of material and accurato sicutches, both being depressing fora, cracked and caked And that' ruity withone the rock, gravel, or sand which give colour to the desert. It was over this ratty ground that the transport Wayoun bumped and jolted on the arening of the 7th January. It was evening when

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Wo went out to meet the wounded as they streamed in over the aud-coloured Hat, and gave what sid we could. Many were walking very erect some of them with the stiffness of effort. These were the lens serious cases; tho stretchers and transport Wazony came in later. One was struck with the bardinas and stoicium of British and Indian alike. "Beg you pardon, Sit." Pays a British Private, can you tell mo where the ambulance is 7" and the de precates the support of my shoulder, though his calf in bandaged and it is painful for him to put his left foot ts the ground. "I am all right, Sir, it's nothing serious He lifts up his shirt and points to a punctora in his stomach His face in bloody and bandaged. It i nothing" he explaims, tools off a bit of my grime. He will not rest, but movey, on towards the distant Red Cros ling and the fannola of the st zanier de the river. Here at last should be rust, warm tra and comfor" for biz wounds.

We had heard the gunk overnight and in the tacnings or paddle stormer with its ar tendas lighters forged up-rem The frit sheil, disturbed a fight of sand

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December, 1915.

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