18 SEPTEMBER 1920, Page 3

General Haldane, favoured by the cooler weather and streng- thened

by reinforcements from India, appears to be restoring order in Mesopotamia. Two columns, working from Baghdad and from Persia, have cleared the railway up the Dials valley to the frontier. The women and children in the summer camp at Karind are to be removed. Mrs. Buchanan, who had been taken prisoner at Shahroban, was rescued ; one of the murderers of her husband was tried and executed. To the north of Baghdad the unrest seems to be subsiding. The tribes in revolt on the Lower Euphrates have made no impression on our fortified posts, but the railway service is still interrupted and the garrisons at Kufa and Samawa are isolated.