20 SEPTEMBER 1919, Page 22

The last battle fought and won by General Marshall against

the Turks in Mesopotamia is fully described for the first time In the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution for August, by General Wauchope, who commanded the 34th Infantry Brigade. After a week of very hard fighting the Sixth Turkish Army surrendered near the ruins of the prehistoric city of Ashur. General Wauchope shows that the victory was due in part to the daring of the cavalry under General Cassels, who placed himself across the Turkish line of retreat and took the risk of being overwhelmed by superior numbers, and in part also to the pluck and endurance of the British and Indian infantry who attacked the enemy's formidable lines and beat off a very heavy counter-attack.