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THE HEROIC DEFENCE.

OF KUT

· FIVE MONTHS UNDER SIEGE.

The Times review of the defence of Kut-el-Amara, suya tel.

The capitulation of General Townabend and the garrimat of Knt-dl-Amara bringi tria close one el the longest and most ardous siegen shat any British toren hasi ever nadergone. For some worka iz' hai been realized that the prospects of relietį wer mana!! The relieving forces dil their best, all atimuked again and again

with the atmoss galantes, although they had to advance across the öpes plain, They failed largely because the River Tigris was in flool, and all attempts 12 turning the formúlable Turkish positions eventually became impossible.

Kut-el-Amara is a small and 'dirty village situated in a bend of the Tigrin in the midst of the Chaldean desert. Its only outstanding feature is the blue glazed minaret of the local unonque; it has the must Oriental bazaar, otherwise

it consists merely of the sun dwellings of the Arab population. Kot is a place of 50 resources apart from the traffic passing up and down the riveri indeed, the Tigris nad the Euphrates as the

begining and the end of all enterprise. military and commercial, in Mesopotantin, Is. was this reusto post, situated nearly a 400 mil upstream frim, the use, at bara, sul inaccessible at this essen except by the river upproach, that the- devoted parrison und hohl, with gradually diminishing hopes of relief, for nearly five months,

FRENCH SATISFACTION. The French people are now realis- ing the magnitude of the British efort, quite upart from the invaluable, aid of the Fleet, which was almost Yesterday was the turn of the all they counted on at the outset. “A river Thames. We all know the well-informed correspondent writOK: collier Wandle, the largest boat to I hear that privately the French come under the apper bridges and members are even org enthusiastic 793 steam through the waters to the

Wandsworth Gus Works, with regularre it possible) than in their public o what England is appreciation curgoes from the Tyne. Last Satur doing in wartime manufacture. Thi day this little twelve hundred. skwis & Ene answer to the small alique going coal boat, was een ruiles in Paris and in London, tón) that south of the Tyne when she was attached without warning by a die grumbling declares that we are doing

less then our ally: guised gabuarine, which fired six positive fact that General Joffre is shots at her. But the collier has not only perfectly aatized, but that three pounder, in the stern, and she he has had to curb the desire of our THE QURAN MARINE INSURANUS returned shot for shot, three of the troops to take a yet more active partSpeaking in November, 3r. Asquith six shots hitting the submarine until at the unnt, simply because it does she turned turtle. The Wandle was

not suit his present triumphunt hit twice and the fireman had his policy. For triumphant is the trus legs lacerated by shrapnel.

epithet to apply to what General Fessel returned to South Shields to Jofre is achieving, albeit people in put him in hospital and on Tuesday a hurry in cities do not appreciate his started away again. That night she wisdom in triumphing deliberately. TOTAL

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I do not think that in the whole coura of the war there has been a uries of open- tions more carefully contrived, more laril. liantly conducted, and with a better prospect of Anal success.

Pushing up the Shatt-el-Arab, with 4. caval force in support, we occupied na November 21, 1924, Bara, which had, been the stronghold of the Turku as the

Thence the expedition went on to Kaza.

at the junction of the Tigris with the old chaanet of the Euphrates: defented, the Turks at Ahwaz in the Persian lowlands

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in April and restored the pipeline from which, however, the garrison promptly he had already been besieged for over the oilfields; and seized Nasirigh on the and with great gallantry dislodged him. four months, nad was very near the end Euphinen Meanwhile General Towns

The was the last serious attack. The of his resources. It was brown that for head with the 8th Division had pushed Turks, who had learnt the 'quality of weeks the garrison had been existing o steadily up the Tigris, and on September Townshend's men, apparently made y

28 he fought and won the brilliant action, their mind that the garrison were not

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Empir is playing in shaping the The Accumulative Fands of the various

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The Government have at length taken the cherry at one bite and all men of military aga are shortly to be automatically, admitted the army. Nearly all the opposition has evaporated, and it is realised that it is better to deal with the whole question at once than piece-meal,

FRONT.

Numerous small successes on all sections of the front, particularly in the extreme north and south, writes a Petrograd correspondent, are keeping up the Russians spirits, and confirming aby opinion in its conviction of ultimate victory. The greatest artillery and infantry activity just now is in the Babitz Lake district. This long lake, with the River As, cota off from the rest thickly peopled of Livonia the arrow

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cordially endorsed the words of the hing who telegraphed to General Townshend his thanks for the splended resistance. he had made against great odds.

THE HERO OF KUT.

[PTOM ONE WHO KNOWS HIM.]

A mere record of victories, however, to by beaten in open fight, and prepared gives but a faint ides of the ardeons work

The beleagacred force was in no en. and the hardships endured by our troops

viable position. The miserable Arah in

of the, overpowering heat

town which they occupied was full of Mesopotamnjan summer. Sir Mark Sykes, who was at Rut with our men in the wounded, for it the first series of attacks auturam, surimed up their experiences in alone they had 1.100 casualtion and many were suffering, from disease. There was the following words :-

A "descendant of the famous Lord These British soldiers, so andalus the chance than the plans for the so cheerful, have carried a wonderful relief expedition-about which Deral shoed, who fought, with Wolfa at load through this campaign. They have Townsbond was kept informed by wireless Quebee and himself heir to the mar borne heat. rerni, mosquitoes, double-night be defeated by the rains or later genata, General Townshend act himsalt, duty, heavy casualties is the field; while the Tigris inundations which prevail from boyhood to maintain the Sighting aunstroke, "heat-stroke, and malaria have from March to May. So far as natural traditions of his family, His military conditions were concerned, however, the career has been one long record of activo exacted a dismal tall

From Kut General Townshand's divi British were in a better position then service in every part of the world. Es. sion advanced in mid-November towards the Turks, who were on lower ground, gaged first in the Nile Expedition of Baghdad, distant by road about 100 miles. End therefore liable to be flooded out by 138485, Townshend next took part in the fighting on the North-West Frontier of The Turks," who were anticipating large reinforcements, were in an entrenched Both sides settled down to the work India in 1501-02, when he leaped into position at Ctesiphon. Here, with 25 of improving their fortifications. If the fame as commander of the escort of the British Agent during the nege of Chitral miles of Baghdad. General Townshend British position was strong, so also was on November 22 fought and defeated that of the enemy, and it was made in He fought in the Saden Expedition of Fe was finitely stronger in the months which 1808, and served on the Staff in the South very large force of Turks unable, however, to reap the fruits of followed. Von der Goltz arrived to African War. In the peaceful decule his victory, for the arrival of fresh superintend the work. The loop is which, which followed. Townshend acted for Turkish divisions made a retreat impers Kat stands was enclosed by s line of nise time as Military Attaohé in Paris, Sa

tive.

the river:

redoubts, and there were further Turkish on the Stad of India, and finally com- General Townshend was back at Kus on positions on the right bank opposite the manded the troops at Boemfontein, December 1, and almost immediately he town. Eight miles below Kut the Turks Orange River Colony.

The outbreak of the great war found was cut off from General Gorringe constructed the formidable position al division on the line of communications, Es Sinn stretching for 16 miles astride him in command of a division in Indis, with headquarters at the town of Amars, the river, with the Dajalah redoube as longing to be so the front in France, but Within two days the Turks had got round its rentre. About six miles lower down destined, as events turned oas, to vin to Sheikh Baad. some 40 miles lower was the Sanna--Yet entrenchment for greater fame in Mesopotamia. All sc down the Tigris. and though a hospital miles long, an also natrice the river, counts agres as to the masterly strategy ship about the same time managed to The advanced cutrenched position of the with which he defeated: Nuz-ed-Din Pasba run the gauntlet of the enemy a guns, Turks was at Ummel-Elannak, another at Kut-el-Amars, and subsequently fought the battle of Ctesiphon. Those with some casualties, this was the last six miles below on the north bank.

General Nixon-who remained, in com iwo battles, and his herols endurance of traffic that passed down the river from Townshend'à stronghold. 2

mand until early in January, when he the long ego of Kut, have given his. It was a much-tried force which was was succeeded by General Lake-bastened name a permanent place in the annals now set the task of defending Eut till on the crganization of a relief column, of the British Army, N

Townshend has always attribaled his relied should Be at hand. The men who which on Jannery & set out under General

a few months earlier were emaciated by Aylmer from All Gharbi, about 80 miles succese as a soldier to his constant study the terrible, heat, who for a year bad below Kut. The next day the Turks of the campaigny of Napoleon's práctica been fighting a most antuous campaign, were worsted in the action of Sheikh which he has long followed, for a regular had lost over 4,500 of their number at Sasd, and they gradually retired to the period of every day, wherever he has Ctesiphon. Constantly wearied by exces position at Umm-e-Hannah. Hare at the happened to be serving He has master. sive work they had been obliged to beat beginning of the system of defences above ed the Napoleonic battlefielde "at frát a retreat in face of an enemy who greatly described Ganerul Aylmer tried to turn hand, and is an ardent collector of Naper cutnumbered them. Only the masterly the Ed Sinn position on January 21. Welleonic hiterature and relics. Every one who knows him is familiar with the ill with which this small force was lost heavily, and did not get through."

handled, and the devotion of the men, three weeks later the control of the sight of the paraphernalia of bla studies British and Indian alike, enabled it to operations was transferred from the in peace-time-the text-book and mapsy reach its destination in time. The trials Indian Government to the Was Office, spread an the ground or an an

of this retreat are vividly suggested by and stories begno to arrive shortly after table, to which he devotes his moralig warda, cf the terrible, sufferings of the hours. During the present campaign his the letter of an officer, who wrote:

We had to fight a rearguard action all wounded, due to the medical breakdown, letters have been full of comparisone with day, and marched 27 miles before we The later stages of the advance of the the calties which, contrentod. Napo-

After

halted. Hier lying down. for "two or mailed force will be fresh in the public feniz three hours we marched 15 miles mora to recollection. After January 22 there was

But Townshend possesses other qualit

within four miles of Kut. Here we had no serious attack till March 8, when we ties besides his seal for his c

were too tried in vain to break tha Turkien line and one of them at least must havo atrod to stop because the infantry tired to move. Most of the had little or on the south bank of the river, and finally him in good stand during this anxion nothing to eat for two days back the great effort begun on April 3 by month. He is indomitably, sexo, KIỂ

Exhausted they were, the man, General Gorringe who had now succeed cheerful, a lover of amusement however, had only three or four days to ed General Aylmer this time again on and wall able to amuse complete the preparations for the defence tho- forth bank densisz forrings took don and Paris ha is nearly It proved sufficient. The Turks, hoping the Umm al Hannah position, and the in the world of play

position before General Turks fell back on Sanna.I-Yad. Hofe in the world of old Townshend rasady, began an assault tacked Sazna Yet on April 9, but failed a good song and.

once

to carry

the del oth

unsuccessful siege he is certain

ze got to within gallant troops alert, and

It groualled, and the long period of wall which

full

On December 8 they shelled to carry it, and all later attempt to Baden Powell, the

hd again on the reach Kut for the whole of the name three relied bardments werd varied bycin four miles

from deft th failure the Torks desisted until Görlat The fresh attacks were loss costly bui" there waR ONS DALTONE momeit when the many breached Lotion &

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