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In the Hunds of the Arabs, by Zettan Buchanan, published by Hodders and Stoughton, is the story of the capture al Mrs. Buchanan by tribestien at Shahra- bap during the rising in Mesopotamia last year, when her husband. Mr. E. L Buchanan. assistant irrigation officer. was murdered, together with four other Englishmen, all soldiers and ex-soldiers.

Mrs. Buchanan was imprisoned in the hares of an Arab Sheik, and was eventu- ally rescued by a British relief colamb under Brigadier-General F. E. Conyng-

ham.

Mrs. Buchanan gives an unlovely pic- ture of the harem itself:

"The name canvers to the average reader, 1 suppose, a picture of beautiful women sitting about on divans nad brilliant-hued cushions upon a marble floor, amid gorgeous, hangings, smok ing Innguidly, all the day through. The women were here, but far from beautiful--and the tobacco; but nothing else of the conventional picture, und certainly the perfume was not that of incouse.

The courtyard was a square of uneven mud, with dirt and filth all over it. Rocms, which might properly be enll- ed hovels, led off all round the square. As ons came through the door which led from the men's quarters and turned to the left there was a mysterious room which was always kept locked. No one but Sheikh Majid ever went into this except sometimes his son in the com- pany of his father. It was indeed a veritable Bluebeard's chamber

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Of the women who lived in the harem.

The only one whom I did not dis like was Jumeila, Sheikh Majid's only daughter. She was thin, and had been pretty, Her whole person was "tho- roughly neglected, and she had terribly bad eyes. Ophthalinin is painfully. prevalent among the Mesopotamia Sheikh Majid's wite

women.

was rather fat, but had very good fea tures and beautiful white hair, and her her feet ankles were shapely. But she had whining voice, and she was totally blind.

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The most painful object was an old woman named Backab, who was thin- ner than anyone 1 have even seen. A contrast was Sonich, who had wonderful brown eyes and masses of dyed hair. She alone of the women She was the belle of was clean.

Shahraban

As for the women's clothes, nil in the house wore long flowing dresses down to their feet, cut on a yoke, and with a wide frill round the bottom of the skirt, These dresses were made of printed cotton material, mostly with design of red flowers against a white background..

black They had

silk handkerchiefs doubled three-cornerwise, worn low over their forehead, crossed at the back and tied in a knot on one side. Over all was abba, covering the head and falling right to the ground.

There was one other survivor of the massacre, John Baines, who, although also a prisoner, ill and helpless, disabled by wounds, yet was always cheerful and chivalrous. He told Mrs. Buchanan the story of the massacre:

"When the insurgenta rushed the Qeshlan (or barracks) he was standing by the outer wall, among the shrubs, reloading his rifle. Two of the tribes men sprang over the wall; one sinshed at his arm with a knife, laying it open, while the other struck his band and made a terrible wound. A tribes man gave him a sword thrust in the shoulder.

Poor Raines said he remembered seeing the sword descend and feeling the thrust, and that his thought was: Thank God, this is the

end."

The passing of an aeroplane over the place of captivity one-day had an amus ing sequel!

"An old man- kind of albino, with white hair, very pasty skin and little bias, red-rimmed eyes came through into the women's quarters in a violent burry, holding in his hand a small white round ball.

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In addition to those who have served With him were a number of other in the Canadian Forces, ex-members of men, sarmed to the teeth add bristling the forces of any of His Majesty's Allies with rifies knives, and daggers. With or Associated Powers may obtain insur him, too, was Hamid, who came apwance provided that they were "resident and domiciled in' Canada-prior to the me and said: This has been found near

war. the Quesblah. An aeroplane passed over this morning and dropped it.

This was a tennis ball. I explain.

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ed that it was nothing but one of the balls with which we played on the courts, A London dispatch to Indian papers on and I took it from them and bounced it October 5th said:-The shade tempera on the floor. Immediately every one ture was 83 in London to-day, and made topie rivalling sprang back terrified, evidently thinking an African aminer' that it was going to explode..

that of the unemployed. Experts ex- The thought of the careful way in which plain that England is the centre of an they had brought the ball into the house extraordinary distribution" of "pressure, probably afraid all the time that it whereby the hot winds come straight from ia might burst and kill them on the way, the Sahara Scotland's temperature

normal and is attributed to the presence was too ludicrous,"

Of her rescue, after a month in cap-of icebergs, the first seen in these waters tivity, of the kindness and helpfulness since 1835, north of the Butt of Lewis. of the relief column, Mra. Buchanan has

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