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BY ST. JOHN KEVINK]

BEAUTY WHO WAS

GERMAN SPY APPLICANT FOR A POST AT WHITEHALL

FINAL TIGRIS VICTORY. OUR ARMY'S GREAT RECORD, 45,500 PRISONERS;' 230 GUNS.

I met a brother-officer lataly, and asked him what he thought, of Germany. He A supplement to the Lundan Guzatia said that be had not seen much of it, but contains a despatch from Lieut-General that he was immensely impressed by the concerning the exploits of the women Fascinating stories have come to light

events in that theatre from October 1st to December 31st last It was on the morning of the day when. the armistice was concluded (October 31st) that the faal operations of the campaign were brought to a successful conclusion by the surrender of the last Turkish army on the Tigris, and the opening of the

little that, he had acon,

ing?'

I shook my head.

patched to Great Britain during hostili

Sir W. R. Marshall, commanding, the Army in Mesopotami, dealing....with "Do you know," he said, earnestly,pies whom the German Government de

that in little German villages, every house bas electric light and central heats. Numerous female agents of enemy and neutral nationality were captured, but only half a dozen or so were comiot fed of capionage at the Central Criminal Court and sentenced to be shot or sent to penal servitude for life.

The Daily Express is able to give an sccount of the adventures of a young of a friendly Power and tried to smuggle military secrets through an official

ceasored despatch bag to the head of the German secret service in Holland.

road to Mosul.

zi

I tell you," he said, it was some thing of a change to go into billets in Germans after the stinking farms in France; and when I come and look at

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The bulk of the Turkish forces (con- our villages bore in England-still using Norwegian who deceived the Ambassador

and so

in

LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL.

She

Wha

cainted at about 9,000 rifles and afty candles and parafin lacaps, or, in a very nine guns) wets located on the Tigris, in a position of great natural strength advanced village, an offensive sort of astride the Fata Gorge- The enemy's gas that can't be trusted to give a steady right dank was protected by two formid light for an entire evening. I wish I could abla ranges of hills, which could not be transplant a German village to England. turaed owing to lack of water in the

Central heating and electric light in every

She was petite and pretty. looking desert.

Only light armoured cars could cottage-and if you propose central heat. little more than a schoolgirl, and frienda „operate in this direction, and 4 direct

ing in England people think you have admiringly described her as the Bella attack

on the inain position would have

have gone qut of your mind!

of Norway." The woman came to London. proved very costly, The plan adoptedMy friend told me that our soldiers in early in the war, and specialised" in therefore, was to turn the left- of kish position or the Tigris and force a

a Germany are even more impressed by tier obtaining information regarding arsenals, crossing of the Lesser Zab, thus getting an organisation than they were by munition factories, aeroplane, works, and

the movements of troops. French industry, and that is saying a bank positions thetabling our troops on that -

good daal; and the countrymen among favoured with intradactions to notabili- them who compare the well-lit and ties and was welcomed in Government to attack with greater chances of success. Having cleared the left bank of the warmed cottages in German villages with and political circles. Her radiant fear enemy, it was then intended to cut bis the insanitary cink, got end cottages tres, and fascinating manners proved in of retreat on Mosul by means o housing conditions in England should be social functions, and she enjoyed a mea at home, are beginning, wonder why irresistible to those whom she met st cavalry working up the left bank and by

so very inferior to housing conditions in sure of freedom and hospitality experi light armoured motor-cars moving round

Germany. the enemy's right.

enced by few of the Kaiser's emissaries. These

operations, begun on October

There is a village with which I am "The Belle of Norway made the ac gard, were brilliantly carried out. The acquainted in which there is a constant quaintance of young staff officers, and Turks were speedily forced to abandon and copious water supply-running inte employed the charm of her personality. their strong position, and on the 25th on the sea. Every day of every year that to the fullest advantage in her treacher of our columns drove back superior stream, which is powerful enough to сдету

forces and occupied Kirkuk. supply electricity to every house in the

The fair spy's ambition was to get be- Next day the 11th Cavalry Brigade,

ing round the left rear of the age, pours itself into the sea, and behind the scenes at the War Office, and sha a limited use for drainage purposes forded the Tigris feized

miles

i made use in of it. And what is true of all but succeeded in her quest the that village is Hawnish Gorge, thus blocking the road lages throughout the of hundreds of vil sought a post as private, secetary athe to Mosul. At the same time the right cular, village of which I am writing. A was given to an English girl. Shefte the light are used to light the streets of the amps critical stage of hostilities, but byg the Farti-

happy stroke of fortune the appointment armoured cars, moving round rear of the enemy, cut the telegraph line man begins to light them about six o'clock quented fashionable hotels after she had to Mosul thus isolating the

force in

in the evening. By the time he has reach-been foiled in this attempt and became". from the 8th Turkish Army Headquared the last lamp and lit it, it is time familiar with important. State oficials Thereafter, continuous rug And while that man is toiling round Beauty conquered the discretion of one

it out again

and the secretaries of various legations. is maintained on the enemy, although the advance through difficult country, in the

of gallons of water are poury near to betraying the neutrality of his country and seriously compromising his Government. The affair caused a great stir at the War Office and Downing-street,

upstream from Shegat, and

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ous mission.

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great heat and with insuficient supplies these lighting each paraffin lamp, youthful diplomat, and he went perilous

TURKISH FORCE TRAPPED.

of water, imposed a great strain on all ing the brook" in the sea

the village were lit by electricity, the man could light all the lamps in the village streets in a minute or two by means of one or two switches, and extinguish them with equal rapidity; but the village goes She was taken into custody and sum on with its mass and expensive and cummarily interrogated by the Director of bersome parafin lampe, and lets the water run to waste.--Expres

On October 29th the 17th Division closed with the Turkish rearguard, which was holding a position three miles south of Shergat, and drove it from its trenches. In this attack the assault by the 2nd Royal West Kent Regiment was skilfully arranged and

carried through

to the enemy's

over 200 prit line of trenches,

guns

wore

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BEOCCUPATION OF BAKU.

AT THE OLD BALLEY,

the British Intelligence Department. Hat record was minutely examined, and the Government fogad that it had harboured and befriended a most dangerous German agent, whose activities eclipsed even those of Mata Hari," the Indian rope dancer, who was shot by the French. The woman was tried at the Old Bailey, and when the

Thus onded the last battle fought in the war by a Turkish army. The total

11,329 prisoners (including 643 off-judges pronounced the capital sentence captures during the operations amounted

she collapsed in the arms of a warder. threachine bars, and

This is how the censor told the world of the fate of the "Bells of Norway."-

Press Bureau communiqué.

November, 1915.

Over

in which they covered forty-three US Horse!

and eleven machine-

During the Turkish resorver, some

2,500 Bevera batteries of artillery, made peated attempts from the south to break hrough the 11th Cavalry Brigade, but their attacks unsuccessful In the evening the 7th Cavalry Brigade, afterers), 51 guns, 130

$,000 a march of seventeen hours from Fatha,

and rile ammuni- a complete bridging and crossed the difficult Hadraniya where several men and bortes were deard, and war material of all kinds. Gemeind Marahall at once puched on his cavalry ed, joined the 11th Cavalry Brigade, and towards Mosul. They were within twelve too fill troops on the right bank north azmistice was received, but the place as over the protection of the right miles of the town when news of the

duly

on

מגרם

A woman who was tried at the Cen- tral Criminal Court recently on a gravd the sentence was commuted to penal charge of espionage was found guilty and sentenced to death by being shot.

servitude for life.

THE MAN WITH THE MEMORY.

A WONDERFUL RECORD,

of the enemy main body were now under the

deterrent to command

occupied na of Brigadier General Cassels, who conducted the operations which barred the retreat of the Turke

remainder of the despatch deals with the to Mosul.

The

position now was that a stubborn des immediately after the armistice: was instructed to un- General Maration of Baku, which tot yet defeated enemy lay between A fleet of seventeen transports, convey: tand

command and the 17th Divisioning the 38th British Infantry Brigade, The troops were urgently in need of

under Major-General W Test; the 17th Division had been march

W. Thomson, fett Enzelf November 18th, and were ing and fighting for the preceding four joined by ships conveying. General Bicha has Pelmanism beaten to a frazzle, baa Datas, the man with the memory that dys

under

der most arduous conditions

rakhor's The 11th Cavalry Brigade had been con-

Russian-force

The exp

turned up again after four years as s tinnously in action for seventy-two hours, was accompanied by French and

special constable with his head fuller of and all had made very long marches. rican representatives, and the vessel can- facts than str Nevertheless,

veying General Thomson entered Baku He revealed himself in it was imperative to call

ย letter

to the at the head of the combined feets dying Daily Express correcting the Rev. John on the troops for renewed exertions in order to

to close in on the enemy and foren the flags of Great Britain, France, Rus Fitkin's statement that, Lee, the Babba his surrender. During the night (Octo

eto sia, and America.

Our troops landed combe members everything, remem ber 28th-29th) the Turks made repeated

Datas, attempts to break through to the north. but were each time repulsed. In spite of exhaustion, darkness, and abominable roads, the troops of the 17th Division responded magnificently to the call made

and by eleven a.m. on the had

pla

*secure

who

died in Australia.

without opposition, and Baku was taken over from the Turks, who completed their Eered that Lee went to America and that

vacation of the town during the after he is still doing well there

there as The Ma

Man noon. A small force was also despatched They Cannot to Krasnovodsk: in

Harming in The that Greatest Show on order place as a naval base, and to deny it The war has left its mark on Datas, to the Bolsheviks, who were

holding but

mark the value of which is rising Astrakhan in strength Portions

this of

be used to astonish audiences Formerly Krasnovodsk detachment were taken to

in Haydn's Dictiona's history fill- which is an

on then back the Turkish rear o assist in the fighting near Asiabad and by quoting, as soon as challenged,

at

date

of

He

on to the main body, which was

position north of Shergat. This posi- | Merv.

of ion consisted of successive lines

the encyclopedia hasty Towards the and of the year troops ing more than 1,500 pages. Now, throw- entrenchmante commanding a series at ravines which had to be erased by the Batoum, and Baku and Krasnovodsk on demand, all the dates of the war.

2 from our Salonika force landed

ing in

in Haydn as makeweight, he states, attackers. Early in the alternoon attack was launched against this position

passed out of General Marshall's com has become Datas-up-to-date. in the face of a galling:

as it was considered easier to A few evenings ago Datas was invited Whilst this maintain troops at these places by te to an American, officers mess, and went

line. The Commander-in-

through a machine-gun are of questions, Chie

Toe campaign in Mesopotamia bas Arabic, the Otway, the dreds of including the dates of the loss of the stopped and dittalions before it was lasted just four years From small be- Lusitania, the Leinster replied.

and

was in progress the 3.2 delivered a Bad made

heary and vigorous counter in oce

the E.

by

er-attack, which reached the line held by

with heavy

immediate counter-attack.

LiSH.

a serious threat from Tur

ments moving down from

ginnings, when Fac Fort was captured other things besides

of the force when

labour battalions.

area of

which!

the

with

the

direction developed against,/ed had grown to some 420.000, in- the war," said Datas to a Daily Express Camel right fank These troops estah territory of the lished themselves with

machine. guna and guns on the high bluffs near Hadraniya, but were

The 13th HussaTE

cluding bas been conquered

and 114,000 square

has included!

Cavalry Emptly. dealt with by the 7th op Trans-Caspia, and

and

am of November 8th, 19 Mosulation Lewis-guns stren exact information.

state 2,000 Facts and dates about ive: the dates of all the de- of war, of all the battles, of the occupied amounts landing

forces in " of ionary The sphere of parts of the the names and dates od in all the theatres of war, the dates when ships were sunk employed when the lending generals were born, and territory Zor on the

230 miles north the date of every air raid on any town to Mary, in Trans-

in England Away fur la Actual captures since the be

some 1,450 miles north-east of

I know

all the raids the dates when all on the Kent coast towns took place every ginning of the campaign amount to one of them and when the Zeppeline

and 250 guns, together bombed

town they did bomb "WE" HEİSTİLİ" or with vast

The facility with which Datus learns.

loped across the opent dismounted under, furnished by the force are some dinof towna captured

Find the colonel. car:

the bluffs, being

Mounted

west of Bahra from Deir ez a host of other things. beside, including

many Turka ver the bayonet. remainder of the by the

alcared menace from the north, and ther menace in the

capture of

guns and twolve

20ob prisoncz gdth 23.5000 of

Zde were now

enemy "s'avenues of"

effectively

all descriptiona been achieved in a itself.

dates is as

as extraordinary se his memory

These results have

"

impassable owing to floods in wet wen. he said with a jolly laugh. One day country destitute of shade in summer and "I bought my new net for twopence,' thor, and are's lasting record of the galaw a little book on a

Two thousand, facts about the war,"

ito Pulsed every attempt by the enemylantry and endurance of the officers and

in a

has

E

tbacks to the skiful and resolute handl ing of his detachment by General Cassels, end the firm determination of his troops, who

Gripped With his men

men packed in ravines, which sought incomplainingly in spite of heat, and a half hours, and know it by beart

men, both British and Indian, who have bought it, read the list through in were raked by our the Turkish Com year

from across the thirst, mais, and discomfort for four Datas memory created such a stir in Tigris, Ismail Hakle, the

years in Mesopotamia No mander, found himself in a hopeless posi; ever, I venture to think, been more joval

general

America some can doctors offered him 22,000 for his years ago that four Ameri- and ng relief was in sight. At dawn on October 30th, just as our troops of recording my most grateful than to once but when he had done with it

ly served, and I take this opport ity head for purposes of dissection--not at were about to renew the attack, white all ranks and all services who have fecht They have all died, before me said flags appeated all along the Turkish so gallantly, worked so hard, andose Datas merrily, and I propose

devotion to duty has made the my head to King's College Hospital, so potamia Expeditionary Force aa al y that after I am dead it may still if pos in which all can be proud to have served."sible, be of some use to the nation.”

and later on Ismail Hakki” aur- rendered in pérsonű, a

(Donkeyed at foot of next column.)

offering

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