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a hundred is perfectly healthy. The other 99 have some Only about one man or woman in digestive trouble, and perhaps more than 50 per cent of these could trace their trouble to that prevalent evil-constipation. Its a simple thing of itself, but like many simple things, it may grow and become complicated. Constipation is the root of nine-tenths of the sickness of man, and a large proportion of the sickness of women. Nature often requires a little assistance, and if this assistance is given at the first indication much distress and suffering may be averted. To maintain a healthy, system the bowels should operate at least once every 24 hours. This is one of Nature's wise provisions which is too often ignored, and the result is untold suffering Women and children are the greatest offenders, but why such should be the case is a problem to be solved. Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills are a remedy which, taken at the first indication, assist Nature to restore the system to health and to get rid strength, and avert the development of disease. Every ailment is the effort of Nature of some impurity in the system, and the object of medical treatment is to assist Nature in doing To overcome constipation so. Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pilla do this surely and thoroughly.

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LAST DAYS OF SIEGE.

SURRENDER A RELIEF TO THE

STARVING GARRISON The following telegram dated 14th May has been received from the Eye Witness in Mesopotámia da

BAGRA, May 9th. The real privation

The Sikkim made the return journey ing at close quarters. Af daylight they had retired from the bastion to trenchce during an Armistice Passing the trenches ave hundred yards from the fort. Our at Beit Alessa and Sannaiyat she was casualties on the 94th and 26th, were three bailed by group of British, Indians and The following telegram dated May 3rd hundred and fifteen Prisoners said that Turks who had availed themselves of this has been received from Eyo-Witness," the enemy believed Townshend's ammuni- welcome opportunity for a swim So für tion was giving out and that the garrison the only members of the Kut garrison. Mesopotanna

The last communication from General must fall if the attack were pressed hotly that have arrived at Basra are Spot, Gen- Townshend was received on the morn Henes the fury of the assualt. A prisoner eral Townshend's fox terrier, and Poegy ing of April 29th, at eleven-forty described our fort nga ermetery of fur and Diamond, two terriers belonging to am. He sent by wireless Have de Kish dead; he said the 62nd division had General Mallis. Spot bears the inscrip- stroyer gans and munitions. I have in been annihilated Our the twenty-ninth tion in General Townshend's handwriting mated am ready to surrender at one the enemy asked for an armistice to bury giving his record of service from the p.m. A prearranged signal from wire his dead and remove his wounded who lay battle of Qurnah to the defence of Kut less indicated that Townshend's last mes in numbers in front of our fort. Our sage bad gone through. The same day the casualties during the first month of the Turkish General Khalil Pasha received siege were one thousand eight hundred our parliamentaries. He was anxious ba and forty killed and wounded, The said that the garrison should be well enemy must have lost four thousand rationed and that Townshend especially NEW PHASE

The failure of the attacks on December for whom be expressed the most profound admiration, should receive every possible 24th, and Christmas Day, and the p comfort after the privations be had en proach of the relieving force introduced of the garrison began in the middle of dured so gallantly. He said he welcomed & new phase. The enemy now turned his February especially in the hospital. the propose to send them stores and re-siege into a blockade investment, confin-When milk gave out hospital diet was con- The diary sick, and ordinary rations for the wound- gratted the supplies at his command were ing his chief activities to shelling the garfided to corn flour or rice-water for the not more plentiful Two burges loaded ison at night with big guns with fight-ed. On 21st April the four ounces grain. with a chy and a half's rations were left of the siege is now concerned. There would be no reprisals; their future ing hunger and cold, a postponement of ration gave out. From the 22nd to the treatment would depend on their future the date being given from time to time 25th the garrison aubsisted on two days conduct; he could give no pledge, but has the last day the garrison could hold reserv ration issued in January and did not intend to hang of perscouts out indicated in each a reduction in the from the 25th to the 20th on supplies drop Townshend is believed to be procceding scale of rations Horse meat at first washed by acroplanes. The troops were Bo direet to Constantinople with an AD.C. plentiful. The store of grain discovered exhausted when Kut was captured that could not be utilized at once owing to regiments who were holding the front line difficulty of grinding for so large a gar had remained there a fortnight withofil carry the ait. During the last days of Kut held out to the very verge of starvarison, but millstones were dropped in being relieved They were too weak to camp by acroplanes and the engine was tion. From April 16th the garrison had fed with oil stored in naval burges. the siege the daily death rate averaged been reduced to a four-ounce ration of Before February 5th, scurvy set in Town eight British and twenty-one Indians. Hour daily, with a meat ration. As soon shend planted vegetable seeds on January All artillery and cavalry transport ani- As we advanced from Alibherb: the enemy 28th and these bore welcome fruit before male had been consumed before the gatri- the garrison capitulated. On February son fell. When the artillery horses hud relaxed their hold on Townshend and

gone the drivers of the field batteries 5th, the British soldiers were receiving a there was no longer danger of ammuni- tion running short, but the chock at Orah loaf of twelve ounces (mixed barley, atta, formed a new unit styled the "Kut Foot." made the question of supplice serious, and wheat flour) and one pound of meat,

a few groceries and small supply of dates. A VETERAN MULE The civil population have remained in

The Indians' rations were one pound Kut. The few who had left the town in the first days of the investment had been flour (half barley, half ntta, and half tied up by the enemy and shot, and the rations of turmeric, chillies, ginger, and Turks made it clear that they would exe a small supply of dates) and groceries. cute any who tried to escape. To expel The British and Indians fasted on this them would mean wholesale murder of small scale to March 6th. By the first week of February, the garrison had run the town. Thus the garrison was burden ed with six thousand. At our camp out of rice, sugar, dhall, gur (Indian yesterday negotiations regarding ex-sugar) and vegetables, and there was milk change of prisoners of war were so far satisfactory that a hospital ship together with another ship of ours and two big barges laden with food and canteen stores have been admitted to Kut and are now on their way down stream with one hun- dred and seventy-seven sick and wounded. It is expected the remaining eight hun dred and fifty will follow Another point touched on by parliamentaries was the immanity of the civil population of Kut, who, it was explained, were retained there

smoked in Indian wan exhausted early

by force majeure.. The Pasba suid he

in April. After that, lime leaves werd

contemplated additional months, but the

smoked mused with ginger or baked fea fetched Rs 48 a half pound. In an aue- discovery of considerable grain stores hid

dregs. In January English baccy tion gale of officers effects, a box of cheap FOOD BY AEROPLANE. den away in the houses mostly under groun opened a new phase in the invest

During the last phase, while the reliev Indian cheroots value Ra, 2-6-0 fetched ment These were commandeered and paid for and they afforded the garrisoning forces were being held up on the nar Rs, 201 and a box of Egyptian cigarettes flooded front at Sannaiyat, stores R 1. Just before Townshend's force three months supplies at a gradually re- were dropped into Kut by aeroplanes, entered Kat a large consignment of wach duced scair, and the Arabs who had pre chiefly sal atta, Hour, ghee and tea; clothing had arrived, the gift of the Bri- viously been self-supporting now received rations as issued to British soldiers and previously the aeroplanes had been emish Red Cross Bociety This was most ployed for dropping light articles into opportune and probably saved many lives

and at one time. sepoys. The story of the siege thus re camp as rife Pare parts, wire-as the garrison had only the summer kit solved itself into two distinct phases, 1! | less neta for

TORREY AND CRICKET. -- Diferent units saw very little of each both of which whether in gallantry of cigarettes and tobacco. But as it was they stood up in the defence or in the endurance of pri-impossible to supply all, General Town- vations the heroism of the garrison was shend cut out these luxuries as introduc other during the siege. At the beginning, tried and proved in a measure worthy of ing a form of privilege. He himself indirat machine gun and life fire in ad- the incse glorious traditions of the Eri shared every privation with his troops.dition to shells swept the whole area dus tish armyse

AFTER THE ARRIVAL đ

One of the last mules to be slaughtered: had been on three Indian frontier cam- paigns and wore the ribbons round its neck. The cupply and transport butcher had sent it back twice, refusing to kill it, but in the und it had to go with the machine gun mules. Mule flesh was cen erally preferred to horses, and mulo fat supplies good dripping. An improvised hospital for only ten days. For substitute for lamp oil fuel or crude oil animals was three-quarter barley rations was us for cooking which lasted the with no fodder. To make these last it whole of the siege This gave out rank was necessary to keep quarters for Indian fumes and the regimental cooks were east- troops, but six ounces were issued forly distinguishable, being black as chimney parching on March 9th. After several sweeps through the smoke and smuts of unsuccessful attacks on Dajsilah, the Brithe of ranges The tobacco famine was a tish rations loaf was reduced from twelve

to ten and half ounces, Indian troop great privation, but the garrison did not rations of flour from twelve to 10 ounces find the enforced abstention cured the and flour for parching from six to four craving Every kind of substitute was eunces. On 31st March, the ration was tried. Brand, a species similar to that roduced On April 8th, the mill stopped working for want of fuel, Flour had been ground to last till April 18th. The rations were reduced to four ounces of four British and Indian,

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KUT BATTERED BY SHELLS.

the relief.

The troops only left they

After the twentieth of April, many of the Arshy feeling the pinch of hunger made and night. attempts to escape by river from Kutdugouts for important defence work Ou December 3rd when General Town These men are splendid swimmers. Two During the latter phase when fire slacken shend arrived at Kut the force opposing of them go through to our camp with theed, officers and men had little strength him consisted of four infantry divisions, help of the strong current one supported for unnersary walking. Thus there also tome thousands of tribenoien. On'

night in eight hours, the other concealed the siege in the way of games, exercise, the 4th he reported himself on the point by skin bladders made the journey by was very little to break the monotony of of being nvested; the enemy's advance himself by day and arrived on the second or amusements; but on the right bank guard were ten miles behind. The posi- night. A third sole survivor of the party two battalions in the liquorice factory, tim he held was a peninsular formed by a of eighteen came through on a raft with the 110th Mabaratts and the 120th Io- loop of the Tigris, three thonsant tw a bullet in his leg The Turks fired on fantry, were better off and there was hundred yards from the north to the them from the bank Four had been dead around there, a pitch of about 50 south, one thousand seven hundred yards killed, others, many of them wounded, by 20 yards where they could play hockey wide and on the right bank he held a dived into the water and it is doubtful and cricket with pick handles and a rag liquorice Factory and village fortified if any escaped. These Arabs spoke of ball, also they fished and did so with and garrisoned by two battalions. He was the cheerfulness of the garrison, who they success supplementing the rations at the invested an all sides except the west. His said looked thin but wall and strong same time Two companies of the 2nd troups were worn out with long fighting The inhabitants of Kut were still confident Norfolks joined them in turn, crossing and the march from Ctesiphon. He sent that the place would be relieved; their by ferry at night, and they appreciated

--^^ PETULANT-FANNY steamers and barges down-stream and rospect for General Townshend is based on his personality, and the achievement under his command amounts

Artillery fire was faintly consistent fil of the troops most of the mahailas retaining one steamer only the Sumana, for us:

to something like superstition. They as a ferry On the sixth he sent abandoned the town out of sheer hunger. March 22nd, when the Turks fired some Cavalry brigade to Ali Gharb They spoke of cigarettes being sold at thousand rounds in quick succession; keeping one squadron. They fought a eighty perce each, sud loaf sugar two after this they reserved their ammunition rearguard action all the way but got and a half pounds at fifty rupees. The for the evening bombardment generally through with trifling casualties. On 7th townspeople of Kut, they said, had made between 4 and 8 pm. Their shelling was December one of two Turkish divisions small fortunes out of these sales and mostly confined to the town and the fort

appeara

to have been certain traffic where the Union Jack and the observation had moved round his fank four miles to there the south on the opposite bank of the Tivor in the bazaar during the last week of post offered a good target with a battery and two other divisions had taken up a the investment. The first batch of wound of five-inch guns and Headquarters adja position on the left bank, west of Kuted from Kat should be arriving in a few cent. They had some naval guns, but the On the 9th Mured Din sent a letter de days, when I shall give further details of majority were forty pounders. On the mortar christened by our soldiers Petu- manding his surrender. The refusal was the siege from the point of view of the right bank they had a specics of trench lant Fanny, she fired a very noisy 15 followed by a heavy bombardment from garrison.

inch bronze shell always in the sam rosth and most and south east. The cainp

place but never hit anybody. On Janu was started from all points of the corn- pass and shelled all day. The bridge heal defneement was driven in at night; the

ary 2nd, the first hostile Ecroplane was bridge was demolished by Bapper Lieut.

sighted. From February 13th to Marca Ser 22nd, wistors bombs caused more dam- Matthew On the 10th and 11th attacks wore pressed severely all day. The casual- Over eighty per cent of the sick at Kutage thin shell fire. On March 18th one tie on the 10th were one hundred and are Indians. The first batch of 177 to bsbomb, falling on the hospital, killed wenty: Pith two hundred and two. The evacuate contained three British officers British soldiers and wounded twenty-six, nonis had dug up to within six hun and 171 Indians. The Turks had left twelve fourteen overaly of whom Four died On. dred yards and was strengthening his British medical oficers and three chap March 21st four bombs were dropped in works with sand bags and timber Onlains to attend the sick. They described the neighbourhood of Headquarers, ki the 14th casualties dropped to eighty Kut as considerably battered by shell fire ing many Arab women and children; and The only the mosque was untouched Lav an aviator sank a horse buat on the river. sevon; on the 15th to sixty-two Turks were becoming tired of these in ing the hospital ship Sikkim behind to which was crossing with a 47 gun. After effectual attacks. On the 16th general evacuate the sick a doctor proceeded up wards the serial bombardment slackened, Apathy was apparent They had lost a stres with provision for the prisoners possibly through lack of ammunition,

Four British oicers 100 British rank least a thousand men killed and wounded camp at Shomram tug with lighters at TURKS AND BRITISH ON FRIENDLY TERMS, in their attacks on the 11th and 12th tached carrying hundreds of tons. These Doring all this time the garrison made included large boxes of mess stores. Briand file, siy Indian officers and 963 In repeated serfies. On the 20th the sunal tish soldiers and Indians were bathing, a dian soldiers and followers have been force in the liquorice factory drove the luxury not enjoyed for many months as brought dawn from Kut in our hospital enemy out of their trenches two hundred the river bank at Kut was exposed to ships Turkish prisoners are to be and fifty yards away On the 17th in snipers. Directly the British soldiers in exchange. The relation of the Ke two small i sorties thirty Turks were realised the tug was conveying provisions garrison with the Turks was very spook bayoretted Our casualties were one they shouted for tobacco and hundreds of Turkish officers gave every British soldie man slightly wounded. On the 24th. It pounds of plug were thrown them over the a handful of cigarettes as he left Rut creasing beldares in attacks indicated heads of the entries Lime juice, pota British and Ottoman privates were sh that the fremy had received reinforce-toes, onions, groceries and medical com-served fraternising with friendly a

bd division had forts show'd help to restore the vitalityinfplanatory gestures, and there an merite. The famous

The fort the garrison. Twenty-five tons of letters fear of the painfully strained relations Breaches and parcels are waiting to go through which exist between Pritsh priso

should the Turks content var, and their German captors Our Tar

Between our camp and Kut the steamer kish prisoners express themselves Tulner, was seen. It was the crew of this wellfritisted at their treatment. For that made a gallant attempt to force the tunately 1,490, who were taken at Ctesi blockade

phone had been ovacuated from Kot to the nig

24-25th Her far h bullets but the T day before investment. It is beliond that our oficers will go to Constantinople, and the rank and file to Aleppo.

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The following telegram dated May 7th has been received from Eye-Witness, Mesopotamia

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