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SATURDAY,

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GERTRUDE BELL'S LETTERS.

· THE WAR IN ARABIA RECALLED.

POLITICAL OFFICER.

The letters of Gertrude Bell are about to be published by Ernest Renn, Limited. Miss Bell's name hardly needs an introduction; her exploits and wanderings in the East, and the services which she rendered to the British Govern- ment in Mesopotamia during the Great War and afterwards in the settlement of Iraq, place her in the forefront of English travellera, scholara. archeologists, and poli-. tical officials in that part of the world:

So rich are the materials of har letters that this and an ensuing.) article must be confined to Miss Bell's war and after-war expert. ences. Her earliest war service was in Boulogne and London; but in November; 1014; she was sum- moned, to Cairo, as it was felt, in view of the revolt in the Desert, that her knowledge of the tribes of Northern Arabia would be in- valuable. Arrived there. she found it "great fun" to be helping Dr. D. G. Hogarth "to fill the in- telligence files with information as to the tribes and sheikhs;" and she was soon "getting to feel quite at home as a staff officer" when she was sent off at a moment's.. notice "I really do the oddest things" to India with the view of establishing touch between Calro and Delhi in a permanent intelligence bureau for the Near East.

that at

GREAT MECHANICAL ARMY ON SALISBURY PLAIN.

For the first time Britain's mechanical army took the field on Salisbury Plain. Tanks

NOW CONVINCED.

ATLANTIC PEDAL BOAT

FAILS...

going into action.

DANGEROUS HUNTING. HYMNS THAT POIS

HIPPOPOTAMUS CRUSHES

CANOE WITH ITS JAWS.

fi

Nairobi, Aug. 28.

THE TRIVIAL AND TH

FALSE.

"The hymn-book is the

M Edward Tierney, of Man- cheater, the inventor of Carrie, the twelve-foot pedal boat in which he muses, near Jinga, Uganda, which the most dangerous," said I The danger from hippopota-instrument the teacher has hoped to cross the Atlantic, is recently caused a number of fatal. Martin, a Yorkshire vical now convinced that his craft is in-boating accidents. prompted Game the Modern Churchmen's capable of crossing even the Warden Maitland Warne to under-ference at Bournville, Bir

take a punitive expedition.

ham. It was a tragedy tha

Channel.

was Mr.

representatives of innumerable

drowned. Mr.

Urging the need of a Chri

aid to religious matter, whi Boarding schools antiquated accurate information was Imparted.

The attitude of headmaste elementary schools towards teaching of Scripture was s

responsibility for training boys.

Revolt in the Desert.. The upshot of the Indian visit which was. to have been for valy

In a test, which he carried out He set out accompanied by four the very field where children a fortnight or so, was

on August 27 the Carrie, after natives in a canoo. They had kill-most willing larners, they Lord Hardinge's desire she was going for a mile before a stifted three hippopotamuses when a subconsciously poisoned with sent on to Department there.wind, leaked badly, and had to be fourth rose to the surface and trivial and the false.

ae- crushed the canoe with its jaws. How long she was going the stay towed back to Dover by an in any place" she did not know: companying motor-boat in which The boat sank and three of the basis for national education

were W. Matthewson, the natives but the "elassification of tribal

R. E. Henderson, headmaste material" was "extraordinary insighty-six-year-old partner in the Warne, with the greatest dificulty Alleyn's School, Dulwich st

succeeded in saving the life of in day schools little attention teresting." and every one was projected enterprise.

the fourth native Both were "amazingly kind." She lunched "with all the Generals," and they

picked up by a ferry boat right on gave her a "splendid great 'ver-

the edge of the Ripon Falls. My duties are of the most andah with a cool room behind it diverse kinds. We are very short- again ventured out and shot four Mr. Warne later in the evening in which to work." This was in handed. I take on everything hippopotamuses. March, 1916. "And I'm glad can to spare Sir Perey interview have got to know Sir Percy Cox. He is a very remarkable person. creeds, keep an оред door for once more extinguished the shin-times one of indifference. not the least remarkable thing tribal sheikhs and messengers ing of the Bear. But as for people majority of masters were about him being his entire ab-from the desert, whose business I who read of these things in their selves so much puzzled by the sence of any thought about him- discover, and send up, in brief to almanacks and know to a minute sent religious outlook that self. He does his job-a gigantic Sir Percy, and behind all this when to expect them, I think no- seized any respectable excuse job-and thinks no more about it."there's my real job, the gathering thing of them and their educated throwing on to the parents In April. "Mr. Lawrenee" appearsand sorting of information. Al-sensation. "sent as liaison officer out of ready the new tribal maps and Egypt and by this time the tribe lists are getting into shape,

AN INTERESTING LIFE. anxiety about Kut is acute.

By November, 1918, after the and the first big batch of con-war was over, she was writing:- I don't hold a brief for the Go-fidential notes on Baghdad person- vernment of India, but it is only alities will be issued to the teresting time of my life, and I am having by far the most in- fair to remember that K. drained Political Officers India white of troops and of all that's not. bad going! Presently can grapple with it adequately. to-morrow thank Heaven 1 am now well and military requirements, including all the new surveys will began to The Franco-British hospitals and doctors, at the begin-come in, and I shall have the re- has thrown the whole town into declaration ning of the war, and that when vision and correction of the place a it developed into a very serious names, a thing I like doing because often that people are told that ferment. It doesn't happen matter-far too big a matter for in the first place it's so nice to their future as a State is in their India to handle might easily have been avoided. command of all her resources-It teaches me so much gecgraphy, like. They are all falking, and unsuccessful attempt to force

if she had had get them right, and in the second hands, and asked what they would You alone are to blame if you are neither troops, nor artillery, nor The head man is an enthusiast and mercifully they all come in to me strong-room doors of a branc Thieves made a determined liverish or bilious and cannot hospital units, nor flying corps, gives me a free hand. And then with the greatest eagerness to dis- Barclays Bank in High-read, interest yourself in your daily nor anything were sent back in I'm going to show the Revenue cuss what they think. On two stone, E., during the affairs. Keep Pinkettes; the ideat time to be of use....Rolltically, Commissioner all the old buildings points they are practically all hours of the morning in mail w Jaxative and liver regulator, at too, we rushed with the business, and scraps of buildings that are agreed: they want us to control! Hand and use them when required with our usual disregard for a left here, and he has promised to their affairs, and they want Sirny-acetylene burners for s

The men must have worked to clear your system of matter comprehensive political scheme. keep guard over them. It's Percy as. that literally poisons your blood We treated Mesop, as if it were thousand times more interesting Beyond that all is divergence. steel doors had been cut to High Commissioner. time as a square in the 18in. t Then there is no reason why you an isolated unit, instead of which than Basra, you understand. should not keep well and fit all it is part of Arabia, its polities

Most of the town people want an depth of 3in. near the lock. Indeed, she "loves Baghdad," Arab Amir, but they can't fix upon the year round.

indissolubly connected with the and "the people are so outgoing the individual. My belief is (but I press repórter that it was alr An official of the bank told Of your chemist, or post free, great and far-reaching Arab ques partly propitiatory no doubt, but don't yet know) that the tribal impossible to force the str 60 cents the vial, from the Dr. tion......The co-ordinary ofthey are glad to have us." Williams' Medicine Co., 60, Kiang- Arabian politics and the creation She is now currently described not want any Amir so long as they in burning off one of the l

people in the rural districts will

room. Had the raiders succes re Road, Shanghai..

of an Arabian polley should have as a Kokusah, or female Kokus can have Sir Percy-he has been done at home-it could only (Sir Percy Cox), which word "simmense name among them--and

an there were still two others lef

THAT HEADACHE

THIEVES CUT STE

DOOR.

ATTEMPT TO FORČE STRONG-ROOM

PINKETTES KEEP YOU WELL. have been done at home. There rapidly passing into the Arabic personally I think that would be 'Examination of the prem

was no one to do it, no one whoanguage, not as A name but s best. It's an immense had ever thought of it, and

business show that all the windows w was a title." Again, the summer heat getting up a court and a power: closed. It is believed entra locked and barred and the d left to our people in Egypt to is most trying: thrash out, in the face of strenu-

The whole situation requires very ous opposition from India and scientific truth, but it's undoubted too wary at this moment when the of money in the strongroom.

I don't know whether it is a delicate handling: We can't be as guined by means of a dupil key. There was a considerable London, some sort of wise scheme ly in accordance with facts-full public mind is so fluid that any- which will, I am persuaded, moon nights are by far the hottest thing serves ultimately form the basis of ear and the stillest. Two nights ago direction or another. I always three

to divert it in one relations with the Arabs.

I was completely In July she enters on a new tried to work sitting outside in my lieve me, I think, They know I pair of smoke goggles.

defeated. I speak quite frankly, and they be Among the litter they left wa appointment as

Official Corres-garden after dinner, but after have their interests more deeply pondent to Cairo; she is now half an hour the few clothes I was at heart than anything else, and part of LEF. "D"; but "fortunate-wearing were wringing wet and I they trust me in the same port of

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The police believe that at l men were concer

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Arrival in Baghdad.

in the

PARIS DINERS' RUSH TO

THE STREET.

Paris: Two hundred

There was a rush for the e

་

before the sun-clerks, typlats, on my roof. I hadn't been asleep

She was soon, however, to leave! servants, they go down before you long when I woke up to find the the country in order to go to the can wink, and you are left to do Great Bear staring me the things for yourself." The face. I like looking North. It Peace Conference in Paris. She writer has fever and inundice; was very strange to see the Great Was not long in Paris or in Europe, "I have never been so Ill as this Bear shining so brilliantly in the for by November she was back were seated at loner custom before." but she has read in hos- full moon of Ramadham, and I again in Baghdad, where "brides staurant in the Rue de Clign had come out in swarms to be a court when the dining-room s pital "all Gilbert Murray's trans- wondered half asleep what lations of Greek plays-glorious happened. I realized that the ried." As the year wore on she denly became filled with a wave they are!"

poisonous gas which caught th round saw the last limb of the the future of the country and the throats and started them epi whole world was dark, and turning became increasingly anxious about moon disappearing in a total policy which was to be applied to it. The military position gate In March she hears of the en- eclipse. So I lay watching it, a trance into Baghdad, and longs to wonderful sight, the disc just cause for apprehensions. "It is in the course of which a girl v the restaurant Was emplt go there. She has her wish Invisible, a dull and angry copper touch and go" in August; "another injured, and within a few minu April: "such an arrival! "Sir colour. In the bazaar a few hun- episode like that of the Manches- Policemen tried to enter the bu Percy Cox tells her that a house dred yards away every one was ters would bring the Tigris tribening but had to retire. has been allotted to her; it turns drumming with sticks on anything out immediately below Baghdad. It was then found, that the.. out to be a tiny stifling box of that lay handy, to scare away the We are living from hand to place in a dirty little bazaar, and devil which cut the moon, and in-mouth." She is "overcome as I came from an adjoining buildi disinfection was bei absolutely empty," but she decides deed they ultimately succeedel, not unfrequently am with the where

better quarters, for after a long, long time the sense of being as much an Asiatic carried out with sulphuric ac It had entered the restaur: "Baghdad is a mass of roses and upper limb of the moon re-appear-us a European. Amint through a hole in the wall. congratulations. They are genuine ed, and the devil, drow alowly Arab member of the administra

next day on

ly delighted at being free of the downwards, angry still with deep tion" she hopes that Sir Percy The cook of the restaurant, w Turks. She has amusing re-red tongues, and wreaths project. Cox, who has not yet returned as had been overcome by the unlons with gentlemen" she met ing from his copper-coloured bod, High Commissioner, will give a had to be removed to hospit at "Hall and Najaf, and heaven and before I had time to sleep very wide responsibility to natives where he recovered after tre knows where besides. It Is

again the Ramadham moon had of this country" immense fun."

ment.