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MESOPOTAMIA OPERATIONĖS

-FRIDAY, “OUTUBER, ISTU 19,AUT

THE LOTTERIES BILL. REJECTED BY THE COMMONS.

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The defeat of the Bill was due to the fact that members opposed to it made a point of attending the House, while some who would have voted for it remained away.

A supplement to a recent issue of the The Bill to legalise lotteries for war London Gazetts contains a despatch, dated charities which Lord Lansdowne intro- April 15th, from Lieut-General W. (Ruced in the House of Lords, on behalf pf the Red Cross Society, was defeated Marshall, commanding the Mesopotamian in the House of Commons by 81 votes Expeditionary Force, dealing with the operations in Mesopotamia during the six months ending on March 31st last The dramatic stroke which resulted On September 29th. last, in the capture: of Ramadic, with the whole of its defenders, went far to break the Turkish resistance, and the operations recorded in the des patch consisted mainly of following up the retreating enemy and hastening his withdrawal northwards On various occa sions he was brought to action, and punished severely, notably in the retire ment from Hit, when heavy casualties fwere

inflicted and over 5,000 prisoners and twelve guns capturestare of the despatch

An interesting.

is the testimony it bears to the striking progress made in the pacification and development of the conquered territory. Under British protection Mesopotamin is being rapidly transformed. The construe tion of roads and railways has vastly im proved communications; large irrigation. schemes have been undertaken, and great tracts of fertile country have been brought under efficient cultivation. It is grati fying to note that, in the period under review, the health of the troops showed a marked improvement compared with the corresponding months of 1916-17. m

Sir George Cave, the Home Secretary. moved the second reading in a persuasive able," he said, describing the hesitation speech. The present position is intoler- of the police authorities to enforce the aw largely carried on for the benefit of war in respect of lotteries which have been

charities.

***The matter "cannot be left there,” added the Home Secretary: The time as come when the law must be enforced altogether, or altered The worst course possible would be to leave the law on the "Statute-book and not enforce it"

He hinted at the loss to the great war charities, notably the Red Cross and the St. John Ambulance Society, if lotteries were strictly barred and mentioned the great pearl necklace."

THE PRANIA

there would be few who would be able If this is sold privately," he said,

could, who would be willing so to spend to buy it, and fewer still; of those who their money in war time. I am told that, sold at auction, the pearl necklace might realise from £100,000 to £200,000, while if it is raffled the society may realise from £3,000,000 to £2,000,000.

Mr. Theodore Taylor, who was at pains to assert that he is not a kill-joy or a disagreeable Puritan" and that he dis likes the "Noncenformist conscience. moved the rejection of the Bill. How could they pudish people who played

Pa

When General Marshall assumed the command in November, after the lamented death of Sir Stanley Maude, the moral of the Army was magnificent, while organisation and training bad reached a high level of efficiency: The Turkish army on the contrary, was low in moral, and desertions from it were numerous and frequent on the Tigris and Euphrates.

pitch and toss and otherwise broke the they had retreated out of rapid striking law if they allowed similar practices on distance, and only on our right flank was the part of people of influence because there a good opportunity of hitting them. The Red Cross," he said, “will lose as the objects were represented as good? Towards the end of November, therefore, General Marshall determined to attack There will be a number of people who

much as it will gain if this Bill is that part of the 13th Turkish Army Corp will not like it any the better for having passed. which was holding the Diale River above Mansuriya, the passes over the Jebel to appeal to the cupidity of the public Hamrin and Kara, Tepe. These opera in order to raise money. He moasidered tions were brilliantly carried through by it undignified to pass a Bill in respect Lieut. General Sir R. Egerton.

of the raffling of these pearls and a Kara Tepe was captured, and the Turks "re-

Pig treated through Kifri, where they set fire Swift MacNeill in a flash:

Pearls before swine" interjected Mr. to their dumps of coal and the Kifri coal mine. On December 6th Khanakin was

Sir John Spear seconded the motion for occupied, and the communications in that the rejections plenary arter area improved.

HYPOCRITICAL OPPOSITION.

Mr. Evelyn Cecil, supporting the Bill, said it was hypocritical to object to Red Cross raffles when they had taken place in church and chapel bazars for years.

Sir Albert Spicer suggested that the State should take over the pearls and sell them after the war.

During December and January it was evident that the Turks on the Euphrates were being reinforced, the bulk of their troops being near Hit. On February 19th troops were pushed forward to L'abah, which was found evacuated, and it was ascertained that the Turkish main position was two miles above Hit behind à depres sion known as Broad Wadi, while about What wills working man's wife do two-thirds of his troops were fifteen miles with the necklace if she wins it!" asked farther upstream at Salahiva. On March Sir Stephen Collins. 8th it was discovered that the Turks har Sidney Robinson cited the state- vacated their Broad Wadi position, and ment of a bookmaker-that his business were falling back on Balahiya Hit was

had increased tenfold during the war--14 occupied on the 8th, and Salahiya on the an illustration of a demoralisation which 10th, the Turks retreating to Khan the Bill would accentuate. Baghdadi

ROUT OF THE ENEMY.

After Mr. Chancellor bad wailed over, and Mr. Hemmerde had waxed indignant man of the Red Cross Society, made s at, the Bill, Sir Arthur Stanley, chair- weighty speech in its support.

Sir William Collins, though a worker for the Red Cross, attacked the Bill, and Mr. Arthur Richardson said it would be denounced in chapel pulpits throughout tha.country.

ment would leave the decision to the free Mr. Bopar Law stated that the Govern vote of the House. He supported the Bill

The Egures of the division, giving a majority of four against the Bill, wers: greeted with cheers and and cries ofGet on with the war-!'

counter-cheers

Orders were then issued to drive the enemy as far as possible from Hit, and to inflict all possible damage on him Preparations for the attack were nearing completion when it became evident that the enemy bad already commenced to with- draw from their forward positions, but intended to make a stand north-west of Khac Baghdadi Arrangements for axaulting this position were accordingly made, and under cover of an effective barrage it was carried out at with slight lots

at 5.30 p.m.. Meantime the

after al difficult march,

long and the Aleppo road where it crosses the Wadi Hauran abortly after five p.m. and cut off the enemy's retreat by road and river. About 11.30 p.m. the Turks launched a heavy attack In the hope of breaking through the centre of the cavalry; but were completely ro pulsed, and lost 1,000 prisoners. By 5.30 a town which is full of sacred memories am, next morning the infantry columns for Mohammedans, I decided to punish arrived and completed the defeat, captur two of the leading sheikhs who were shown ing à large number of prisoners, supplies, to be responsible for the offence, and to and munitions of all kinds. An energetic levy a heavy fine. The sheikhs, however, pursuit by the cavalry and by a mobile ted before they could be arrested, and they column in motor cars was then carried became outlaws. The fine was paid.

January 12th some of these fired on the troops exercising near the town, causing

few casualties Not wishing to injure

out. Haditha was captured without seri- After this incident matters seemed to be ous resistance, the enemy having no time going on satisfactorily when, on March to destroy his ammunition dumps at that 21st, to my great regret, the political place, and in the evening Khan Feheme officer in Nedjel Captain W. M. Mar- was reached On the 28th Ana was cap shall, was murdered. No reason was tured, and another large dump of given for the act, as the deceased officer ammunition was found in it. The pur was universally liked. I immediately suit by motor was continued for seventy ordered blockade of the town until all three miles along the Aleppo road, many those implicated in the murder were given prisoners were taken, the Turks in most up, and surrounded it by cordon of caacs surrendering, freely, being worn out military posts joined by barbed wire and demoralised by the rapidity pursuito

ty of our

RAILWATS AND AGRICULTURE," The total prisoners taken were the com mander and staff, of the 50th Turkish Divi area proceeded space. Many hundred Meantime, the development of the Hills sion, the commandant of Ana, two regions of seed grain were planted, and to mental commanders, 213 officers, and 5,052 assist in bringing the barvest into other ranks, inclusive of Germans. Twelve Baghdad & branch line down to Hills was guns, forty-seven machine guns, and great constructed. There is every confidence quantities of rifles, ammunition, and that this scheine will prove beneficial and stores were also captured. The amount of enable the force to be largely dependent ammunition found at Ant, being too large on local produce,

to e brought away, was blown up, and General Marshall pays tribute to the OP March 30th the troops were gradually loyalty and untiring work of his sub withdrawn down ously arrange the Euphrates to préviordinate commanders and their staffs, and By the middle of December the magnito duty displayed by regimental facers to the gallantry endurance and devotion ficent successes gained by Sir E. Allenby non-commissioned officers and jen of all in Palestine had so changed, the military arms throughout the six months. He ituation that General Marshall decided acknowledges also the value of the work the time was rips to establish control of the line of the Euphrates, add vices, the medical service, and the trans brm done by the various administrative ser by that means encourage and assist in the development of the rich agricultural land in that area To that end the troops were sent from Nasiriya and Baghdad to dar son various villages, thus estaban through communication by river beca Basra and Feladja and controlla development of local resources throughout the lower Euphrates valley

port and works departments. It is not perhaps realised, says the despatch, that in this undeveloped country the only local products are mud bricks, reeds for making mata, lime and bitumen in small quanti ties, and gravel in Pisolated localities Every other frequirement, from a construc on point of view has to be imported partment are described as extraordinary, chievements of the Irrigation De rbeld and the Commander-in-Chief looks for at ward to big developments next year, are Cooperation with the Agricultural holy Department will, it is anticipa about a great expansion which has already made. femi

Care was taken not to establish troop in either of the religious cities of and Nedjef and they were quarter distance. The inhabitants of for the most part well-dispo people, but there is, in addition, a pro- portion of irreconcilables in the town.”

(Continued at foot of next Column

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