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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1917.

SHIPPING

P. & O. S. N. CO.

0.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT

TO

THE CHINA MAIL.

HOT DAYS IN BAGHDAD.Gulf and then, drops, leaving a hamid

MARSEILLES AND LONDON, which one submits to his severities,

TIXING PASSENGges and Cars0 TO STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA,

Steamers

10

Colombo

Lears Hongkong Noon

Connecting Mail Steamer from Colombo.

EGYPT, &o.”

Due Due Marseilles London 1917, 19LT.

When Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBON Accommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is deânitely ret svod

Hongkong at the time of Booking, Y.

On the Australia, Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.

SAILINGS DIRECT TO::

*. SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND

$. 3.

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CARRYING 197, vyp 240 SALOON PASSENG TRS AT REDUCED RATES. PROPOSE STEINOS :

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About

Leave S'TORE. about

Die At M'SKILLEN. if alliag about

Dua LONDON about

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All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Berth Furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp.

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VISITORS "27" THE HOTELS.

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Larslice

Loirin

Guidon

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Me: 8. Longfield CapaR.

Longland

Aim in the air, which suffocates one like blanket until the wind-charges. A [BY EYE-WITNES "I clamtniness pervades everything. Even

inanimate material things see muit Me G. E. Anderson Me E. Labanat

seem to rwent HONGKONG BUT L, in this To imagine Daghdad, September 1917 The wrap one's head in hoa puditing cloths and His A. G. Anderson Lt. Lasigan moment of waking on a still hot one's chest in mustard, plasterstudie Mr Geo. & ArchbuttMe and Mon C weather morning in Baglad is one of euches is a different thing. One feels Mr J. B. Baring Mr.

The heat of the desert in tents and H. Horray Bain Lauritsen the least pleasant of the day. The air is as if one were standing ab the edge of Mrs H A: Mr and Mrs. J. J

Z. Baring charged with apprehension, just as tho a huge frs in high wind licked waiting room at a dentist's is sometimes gusts of flame. The bot air leape up

Baxter not so oppressive as depressing more depressing than the actual chair in and buffets one. There is an element Capt. J. Barter of combat in it. The best in Berce, Master Baxter Happily the nights are generally cool does not infect ons with the same in-He. D. J. Bell

Mrs RR. Palilion and the mornings fresh, however burning Then there are the almost daily dust

sidious relaxation of fibra and spirit.Mr and Mrs D. M Mr and Mrs F. Major I. Macdonald. the days when the north wind drops, storms, a sudden darkness, a rustle and Mr Birbeck Dr and Mrs 0.

Bigear

Maitland or wurde, when there is a south wind a shadow, a pillar of dust, apiralling Mr and Mrs A. L Harriott bringing up the moisture from the Gulf, and gyrating on its base, tearing across Boustic Mr B, E Masiin It is bateful when one wakes in the the desert. Then a pause, but for me MrP. J. M. Founmanir F. W. Melntyre moming to think of the day in front of only. The spirit that is abroad is Capt. de Mira Branch Mr H. van Moines

contagious. Other dust devils leap ups B. BritchardMr J. Marecki and swirl Soon the whole plain is in and & children. Mr and Mrs D motion. The air is darkened, the beat MW. G. Browall At the end of May this year, when in boavy and sallon, Hot, blasts no

Minhardt laft Baghdad, the mornings were still longer bet you. There is uniform

Capt. & Mrs Mitchell tolerable, but the sun, was taking bold, one feels one could put up a better de deadweight to support, against which We wero all, according to the castom offensive if one wars anpine, But the man the country, sleeping on the root. Early in the

and his head and goes

work The heat and the fies are enomics that the Mesopotamis

Chotyner Expeditionary Formo will remember longer than the Turk: In the rent dor days

one..

*

Iment

Mr R. A. Brogen Mos Me N. Burns

in April the housetops wore desorter 20 font, or "dug-out winds, & Mr G. W. Chandler: Mr 7, S. Nicolson

but in May every Baghdad man, womAD" or child ascended to the roof to sleep When one woke in the morning one over

ploring он with his

·༈་

locked a sen of roots. The well-to-do dried and frizz the dy passes pitia

of tempera

Mr & Mrs Caposeles E. E. Myers Mr L. A Calderon Me F. Moulder Miss Carpmsel Mr. E. La Mystre Hr A. Charty MPA. E. Odell Mrs and MasterMrs J. R. Deare

Oldman Misa C. ChristuranMrG: Oliveruron Mrs RR. Plunket: Mr and Mrs E. J.

Cola

Parker

lay in four-posters with mosquito cur- bp with a few extra de can put Me J. L. Conklin' Mr and Mrs J. B.

ture to be rid of the pet think it pos- Mr and Mrs J. WMr P. Potts.

tains; the poor on hard benches with a mattress thrown over them. The three families who lived in the small house next door to our Mess had twenty-eight children. These were disposed with the down odd grown-ups in ton large square beds like wooden platforms, fenced with rails to prevent the smaller fry, from

Dr & Mrs. Coronel. Patton MrJ.IL Courtney Miss E Pencils

Mt WB

Crandall

falling out The searching for insects on And now the endured the worst and Mrs Graca Cap Dusse!

that went on in the morning suggested disturbed nights.

On one root was a lamb;ou another promenading" turkey. And there was generally a stork on the neighbouring minaret standing above the head of the Maczzin,as he uttered his call to prayers, and fapping his wings in accompaniment to the man's beating of the breast. One bird had a nest on a Christian Church in view, and she defended it fiercely against invaders. Then, having asserted her dignity and modesty, she would throw back her offended neck, slack ber beak, and omit her machine-gun rattle.

That was in April and May. When I

sible last autumn that troops, who

I confeas that I did not been through the hot weather of 1916 on had the top of four months experience in the winter and spring, would be fit for a big Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force will offensive in the cold weather. But the live in history as the most perfect ax- ample of the British habit of slegging have been through beat Baghdadis. apother SAMIGE

As for the spiritber.

of the force, it is the spirit of troops who have accomplished great things and achieved victory out of adversity. Their dearest wish is that the Turks should descend and attack us. The more the merrier. "It would be a welche change. for the boys," says Pto. Smith, to see the Turks hopping the parapet."

YOUNG GIRL BURIED ALIVE.

reteroed early in September the lamb IN A COFFIN WITH DEAD BANDIT. and the turkey had gone; even the storks had taken themselves off; but the mon

and

reman and the teeming children two hottest chantly increased Presi

I was

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A correspondent writing to the "Chica they Ead

from Satsien, N. Biangsu, that for the August, I had scaped, and that instead have broken loose hers in the last few months of the year, July and November bruk, says :-Fach atrocities as of the panorama of Baghdad endeshabille, the first thing that greeted my eyes in days ago hardly thinkable even after being the morning had been a Himalayan forest surfeited with the news of the atrocities Even

the September heat was oppres being committed in Europe. A few days SIVA

The frat twelve days of the month ago a band of robbers attacked a village, were eight degrees above normal, and the and were resisted by the people of the degrees by the official reading, and 115 town. In the fight which ensued, one atmosphere was moist and sticky-114 degrees in some of the offices and billets of the robbers was killed. The rubbers

In July the temperature had risen to 122-8 degrees in Bagdad and 153 degrees finally wou the fight and entered the often ten degrees higher than in Basran. In tents and

nts and dug outs it was village.

stand- ardised official reading. And I gathered a great deal of collective evidence from persons otherwise normaily truthful, of nigher readings than 132 degrees, But

a village by the robbers, this band decided these I will not record, for it is hard to to go beyond their usual severity in strik believe that anything s save & Salamander could live through such heat. The Bagh in terror to the hearts of those who dared Elmer's dadis my that they had never known to resist them. They procured a coffin anything like it before. Most things and put the deed rouber in it, and with were too hot to touch, The rim of a tambler burst one's hand in a tent. The him, put one of the young girls of the

ard sand burnt the soles of one's feet through one's boots,

the

A

After the anal orgy of torture and blood which goes with the conquering of

village, alive, burying them together,

Burying, alive is bad enough in any

dust

Most of the houses in Baghdad are provided with a Serial or cellar, sunk form, and for any superstitious purpose; some six feet under the ground level The temperature in these Serdale is generally ten degrees lower than in the Toons of the first door, and one is glad stances as this and for the purpose of to escape to then though the air is close reveske, goes beyond the power of lang

but burying alive under such circina

and oppressive. The ventilating shafts age to express its bozzor.”

which run froin the cellar to the roof

end in hoodlike rowia, and all roint the

the same way to catch the shamal, or

prevailing north

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