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Aerial Activities,

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LONDON, March 9th, The Prom Bureau announces -The Air Council has congratulated the Naval Air Service, the Flying Corps, and the Aus- tralian Flying Corps on their splendid work in the great battle,

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NAVAL AEROPLANES ACTIVE

LONDON, March 25th. 9.30 p.m. The Admiralty report-Naval sero- places from Dunkirk between March-21st and 24th destroyed 10 enemy minchines, and brought down seven uncontrolled. A hostile balloon was brought down. We carried out three bombing raids on Bruges Docks, obtaining many direct hits on the sheds upon the quays. Bombs burst close to destroyerɛ.

Acroplates attacked; several torpedo. boats, a destroyer and an armed trawler. A pilot who was forced to descend to

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ENGLAND'S OTHER HALF.

PRODUCTS OF MESOPOTAMIA

The date palm is cultivated chiefly in the south of Mesopotamin along the river banks of the Euphrates and Tigris. In the rich alluvial land, which includes that in which old Babylonia was situated,

In the

I have just returned from a tour in

[BY LIEUT. C. MANSFORD.] the industrial districts of Yorkshire and

The foetid, undredged son reaches of the Lancashire, writes a special correspond Shatt-el-arab, where the combined waters ont of the Daily Express on January 11th, of the Euphrates and Tigris enter the where swamps do not altogether hinder

steaming Persian Gulf, mark the most cultivation rice is grown, as well a southern and westerly productive portióD

maize and the tobacco plant of Mesopotamia Here, victors over miasmic marsh and reedy swamp, the extreme south, during the present British southern Muntiäk-a hardy, earnest race has been laid out in vegetable production occupation, a considerable stretch of land

of Bedouins have settled, and assidu-

to supply the Expeditionary Force, the Gusly cultivate the date palm. Within a

result being a striking success, aiding single generation, turning from desert wanderers to agricultural settlers, they materially to secure the good health have proved the worth of the Arab na à of the army of occupation Mesopotamia tiller of the folds and the grower of cal cotton and wheat-growing luscious fruit, for their exports are soil the world knew for the production country. Herodotus states it was the best

Cities like

already worth more than a quarter of a

I have wandered up and down streets, choosing mean streets wherever I coulds watching have spent hours in markets, the business of shopping. I have gossip ed with all sorts and conditions of men, avoiding the lenders of the people”. - who "speak for their fellow citizens,

and whom a sense of responsibility" prevents from speaking their own minds Everywhere I have found abounding prosperity." Wages are high. There is no unemployment. The casual labourer has found permanent work. Sheffield have added tens of thousands to million pounds sterling annually. Able, of grain; that bath wheat and barley had their population without.exhatisting the to-day, thanks to the presches in Meso much straw, the cars of the wheat und demand for labour

potamia of the British expedition, to barley growing fully four fingers" width High wages naturally led to unpreproduce, pack, and export their fruit across, while, with the best of irrigated cedented spending. There does not seem to be any widespread saving for a rainy under favourable conditions, they are culture it increased three-hundredfold day, but, on the other hand, it would making great strides in civilisation; the from seed to uar. Millet, again, grow so be unfair to say that prosperity has led exactions of the past, the apathy of the prolifically that he hesitated to state its. to general waste. It is true that theatres, music-halls, and cinemas are crowded Governmcat, and the general misrule to production lest he should be accused of throughout industrial England. This is, which they were formerly subjected being exaggeration; only by actual sight of the however reasonable expenditude where

abundant crops could the fertility of the..." men and women are working long hours now only unhappy memories.

soil be understood in factories and munition shops. Thero lus been much buying of new furniture There has been a very obvious run on the Loot shops.

BOOTS TELL

Like the gentleman in the Pilgrim's

Even omitting the Steppe, the land stretching from Aleppo to Mosul is seen

the sea was picked up by & French Progress, I have walked the streets with city which have been allowed hitherto to and Euphrates, the same conditions exist,

destroyer.

All the others returned-

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FLEET.

Kier, March 26th

Aleng both banks of the Shatt el arab cultivation is moving space, just as in far Aleppo the merchants, reading the signs of the times, are either purchasing, or at Icast entering into partnerships to con- tube, capable of producing cereals in trol, the many rich fields adjacent to their abundance on both banks of the Tigris my eyes on the ground. I have been become Bedouin grazing grounds instead carefully investigating boots, especially of producing abundant crops. The the stretch of alluvin land, below children's boots. Nearly all of them were western fringe of the Euphrates, to which it and Tekrit to the Persian Gulf, is stout and weather-proof. In Oldham, the Syrian desert thrusts forward its so rich that, although portions of it have and sometimes in Manchester, the wooden burning sands, in a constant struggle to been cultivated for over four thousand clogs clatter over the cobbles, but they obliterate the pasture, marks the limit of years, there are no signs of exhaustion Are the exception. In Birkenhead; and in cultivation there from Hite famous for of the soil. Yet, the country does not, Mr. T. P. O'Connor's, constituency in its bitunen, castwards and across the in fact, produce to-day one-thousandth Liverpool, the hoots were brokon and Tigris, is a vast stretch of land, about part of what it did formerly and what sometime, even odd. The wearers: accent two-thirds of which is inefficiently cul. It is capable of hearing again, under Round the rivers, tivated, and the rest sheer swamp, the settled conditions betrayed their nationality and among the haunt of flamingo, of white plumed peli and between them-in AbIrak, too, of all Irish a broken-boot may accompany a full can with feathers suffused with the pink places-are marshes, jungle, and reedy stomach as well as a kind heart, pas

of of subtler birde and beasts of swamp A blight seems, indeed, to have. that the great majority of children aceite the Booth are dear. The fact, therefore. pre and.

The Ukrainian War Minister has well shod is conclusive evidence both oft fromat

of all, predatory man settled over the whole land; the ancient

ordered the demobilisation of the Black Sen Fleet,

The Near East.

and Euphrates rise not irrigating cangis have either completely other, in the high Innds disappeared or are damaged beyond prosperity and of the legitimate using of of Armenia, there is considerable differ repair, while, at best, a little water mones, A Roman Catholic priest, with ence in the length of their respective trickies down the centre of their beds, ar. exfonsive parish outside Liverpool, courses. The Tigris, swift and impetuous, which are generally choked with weeds, told me that Lancashire children are almost all the way from its source to its are foul for wint of cleaning, or miasmic better fed better clothed, and better cared

junction with the Euphrates, has a course

The breeders of fever-carrying fies and mos- ven hundris miles. for, than they have ever been before. of about cleven Certainly the ragged boys and girls that Euphrates, meandering in parts, extends uitees. The rivers usually overflow used to hang around railway stations are its journey for six hundred miles moro, their banks annually, and frequently no longer to be found Taking children and is more kindly to the earth it burst them; terrible inundations destroy as a test (and there could be no surer traverses, so that along its entire banks, the crops or by diverting the waters OPERATIONS IN PALESTINE. test), the other England; north of the with few exceptions these stretches from their proper channels, bring ruin

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BRILLIANT ATTACK BY LONDON BATTALION

Trent, is a better country than it was green ribbon of fertility far beyond that upon the forests of date palms, millions of its twin river. Beyond Hit and Tekrit of which are to be seen dying for want before the war

Boots are sound in Lancashire, and the great enclosure which the rivers of water. The country has suffered, again.

and which thi

the Island rabs call and again, from calamities such as the Great inundations, pestilence and famine, but Losper, March 24th-not un ocidence of poverty, but a prouf

8.30 p.m, of the Lancashire woman's practical desert, but in all Mesopot fully made dominion. From that disaster it has act

heppile the distinctive shawl remes commonly thought of as uita worst tragedy was, when in 1815,

hes the

there is no Sultan Selim added it to the Turkish

A Palestine oficial report states:We must be a warm and comfortable ger commonsense. The Lancashire shawl

except what man has

neglect of nature

The Steppe is yet recovered. It has, at no time in ita threw fresh bridges across the Jordan on neut, and it is certainly attractive. It really a vast, rolling plain, resembling history, been a political entity, and may be hoped that neither prosperity, the great Byrian desert rather than the between its pashalike there, bus been con- the night of March 3rd.

nor the hatefal tendency to uniformity Nefud Desert of Arabia or the We had

to curry favour at Stamboul by a gross

progressed by the night of March 4th nine miles through difficult

of Essalt

in clothing will contrive its disappear Desert of Africa. Covered with detritustant camily and a continuous attempt ance Japan is discarding its kimono it has no arborescent plants, but the hand exaction of taxation, not all of which once eulogized the working-claes love for for this Steppe in ancient days was cul- bright colours. Many of the shawls tivated perhaps not as highly as the Est, farmed and the number of families pa

Apart from the Persian element, which I have seen were a sheer joy in alluvial, southern plains, but yet nourishing them is notoriously under estimato their contrast to the murky, colourless ing a large population, and forming a Kurds, Yezidia, and Turkomans,

centre of an agricultural civilisation. Arabs, who forni the bulk of the pop streets,

CONTRAST

After the rains of winter, which begin tion, present, considerable difficultiesko in November and end in February, the whole Steppe is covered with a sparse three groups--the settlers of the t

proper government. They divide to vegetation, and the Bedouins wander from and along the river banks;, the spi- shallow to shallow depression, where the settled population, on the way to oin aromatic tufts and fragrant, flowering their number and the periodical ver herbage afford sweet pasture to their flow of Arab tribes which, leaving the flocks. In summer there comes a great limited cases of Arabia, push forard rank and noisore, into Mesopotamia, struggling to the change; weeds,

Fond mountainous country in the directionct Lancashire stick to its shawl. Ruskin of man, and not of nature, is responsible, reaches its destination, for the taxes ́ar

Our advanced mounted troops secured the bridge at El Howeij, which is three miles southward of the town

I noticed a distinct contrast in the The Treo-Germans opposing our ad-

appearance of the streets in Sheffield and vance were taken, priscoer.

in Oldham. Both cities are triumphantly A London Infantry Battalion, in a bril- ugly. Sheffield is dumped in a hole. It reminds me of the Mile End Road, greyer lant attack, captured an entire battery and murkier, and with none of the Aeroplanes, including Australian units, irrepressible East End jollity. Oldham 23 almost indescribable, but its shawls effectively bombed the enemy, directly it à humanity which Sheffield lacks spring up from the monotonous, stony sant pasturage of the Steppe, and mov

ground, and, having little earth in which hitting troops, transport and camps, the colour of the shawls has its cffect on to root, are torn up by the soughing, wildng to the rich lands beside the fivers, the spirits of the people. They laugh winds and whirled, in high confusion brother money" from the inhpitants barrying the settlers proper, or geting and joke in Oldham, but they are very and riot, withored stalk and seeded of the towns as the price of pen dour in Shefield.

also trains on the Hedjaz railway.

General.

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AMERICA AND THE WAR

THIRD LIBERTY LOAN,

WARRINGTON, March 28th. - Mr. McAdoo has announced that the

amount of the Third Liberty Loan is Three Billion Dollars at 41 per cent.

All over-subscriptions will be accepted,

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AMERICAN GENERAL'S

TESTIMONY.

WASHINGTON, March 26th:

culous in recent times.

gossamer, mile upon mile from their arid

bave

A country's clothes are always haunt Patches of this Steppe, especially Only a firm and just govninent, indication of its character The other south, are impregnated with salt, for the making a thoughtful and kindly tudy of England is practical, and there is a common avoidance of tawry shoddy as for north as Hit. To deal with it will people, could hope to weld the into a old coast-line of Mesopotamia rin at least the temperament and desires of these Even Sunday best is serviceable.

need all the arts of man, if the land in harmonic whole that would be for the Really warm conts, hats that can survive to be rescued, but it certainly can be good of the country at larg and of rain, frequent macintoshes, always the done. More northerly still, as we leave civilisation in general. The hit of tho stout boot-these are the rule. I did not the Steppe, there is a belt of pasture Turk, that of setting tribe agent tribe, see a single woman wearing the comic land, struggling against outeropping and of fomenting religious hids in a opera boots that have made London ridi rock and mallowy mere; beyond, where vain effort to rule through drision, has to the cities rises such as Aleppo, Harran been, for centuries, one of the jain causes Prosperity is by no means confined to Urfa, Mardin, and Nesibis the land is of the unsettlement of the ind. What ops class. The excess profit tas left the urable and foliage comes into view, as ever differences the people may have with Lancashire and Yorkshire manufacturer well as flowering trea and bush, and each other they unitedly rdognise that a generous surplus. The Midland Hotel, glorious gardens of riotous, Persian roses the Turk is nothing but a roacious tax. Manchester which with its surround. In upper Mesopotamia as in all the gatherer with no interest whatever in ings, is a sort of Savoy built on the site country, indeed-there has been a steady their true welfare. Accordingly, he is of the Elephant and Castle, is a striking and ominous decline in agriculture ever

who the in this abhorred by all proof that times are good You see an since the Oamanli Turk set ill-condition much ill-used land as a usurper

the very elements of ample supply of jewels and furs, but the en foot upon so fair a country. At Urfa, ignorant of women, if they do not attain Parisian and about the soil is a rich brown loam, good government. In bite of the smartness, certainly avoid the theatrical extraordinarily fertile, which, when the Turk the southern Mintifik and the exaggerated. What may be rain are kindly, produces wheat and shown the mettle of their ace, and with called the "shawl practicability" extends barley with extremely long stalks and settled knowledge that their labour to the class that abandoned the shawl fine ears, the seed being multiplied fifty. would be for their generd and lasting fold in the ear. When rain is scarce as benefit, the Arab tribes would soon weld the German offensive would fail. He re

often, the crops fail, for the old system in a compact, agricultural nation, There is a food scarcity in the north of irrigation, which made the agricul allowing the freedom and liberty to the commended that

tan American army of as well as in the south Butter was turist, bere as elsewhere in Mesopotamia, rest of the inhabitants that they rightly 2,000,000 men be maintained abroad as everywhere the supplies of margarine and disappeared, although the old canal way The extraordinary advance which the

unobtainable when I was in Sheffield, and independent of rainfall, has practically clain, in Mesopotamia, for themselves. soon as possible, and that another tea were restricted. Meat, too, was hard are partly oxistent. By Ras-el-Ain and subjects of the King of Arabia are mak- 2,000,000 be trained.

to buy. Scarcity is unquestionable caus the district which the Chabur waters with ing, now that Turkish rule has been ing deep irritation, but it is the irrita its many tributaries there is a long thrown off for ever, is a striking testi- tion of people who have plenty of money stretch of fertile land, while where the mony and example of the future also of to spend and nothing to buy.” At pro Serug is circled by the high land, rice 4 great Arab nation in Mesopotarsis, sent the scarcity is nothing more than grows, for the opportunity to bring this once the Turkish régime is removed, an irritation. The other England has semi-aquatic plant to perfection by which for centuries, has wrought sen living well for over three years. It twamping the ground till its maturity, nothing but disaster to the true interests: fi plump England. The plumpness can thus be afforded, Millet, too, is of the country and its inhabitants. faffects its point of view and influences ita | grown, the olive, which produces oil and attitude towards the war and in the con-is so valuable a food for the people of efant disputes that affects its industrial all the nearer east in whose lands it grows, is replaced here by sesamum,

General Wood, testifying before the Senate Military Committee, declared that experts were unmaimoasly confident that SHORTAGE OF FOOD.

a generation.ago.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S CON- GRATULATIONS. President Wilson cabled to Sir Douglas Haig congratulating him on the British stand and predicting final victory.

RECRUITING IN AMERICA,

NEW YORK, March 26th. The news of the fighting has stimulated The condition of Ufe in the districts Fields of cotton, of hemp, and of the recruiting. There was a rush of appli-in a setre inhuman. Ugliness is ram Bills are famous for a finely-flavoured fig which I visited remain depressing and tobacco plant may be met, and the Singar

cants for enlistment yesterday.

pant and the housing condition, are even grown there. Along the banks of the A dispatch from Montevideo says that | lawentable... I do not, indeed, suggest rivers and their tributaries, cucumbers the Republic of Uruguay has decided to that life in Lancashire and Yorkshire has und melong are grown, the water variety advance a loan of 15,000,000 dollars to the approached the ideál, but as far as food of the latter is cultivated largely in the British Government on the condition that and clothes are concerned it is unques alluvial mud, when the rivora shrink in | Great Britain shall spend it in the pur.“ tionably prosperous.

summer with the torrid heat.

chase of goods produced in the republic.

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, March 20th. The silver market is stendy-

URUGUAY LENDS BRITAIN £15,000,000.