The credulous folk who contrast Turkish • " chivalry "
with German brutality should read the official Report, published in Thursday's papers, on the treatment of the British and Indian troops who surrendered at Kut after an heroic defence. The rank- and-me, who were all weak and ill from long privations, were marched to Baghdad by Arab guards, who robbed and flogged them. Hun- dreds died on the way. From Baghdad they reaohed.Samarra by train, and then started on a desert journey of five hundred miles to Aleppo. For trained men in good condition this would have been a hard march. For our unhappy men, halfsitarved, ill-shod, and fever-ridden, it was one long torment: A party of our captive officers passing the same way a little later found the road strewn with our dying, and. our dead The "chivalrous r Turks provided neither food, nor money, nor medical advice for our British and Indian soldiers. Two-thirds of the British rank-and-file and one- third of the Indians perished ; the wonder is that any survived to tell the tale. Let us hear-no more of Turkish " chivalry." Enver and his confederates are just as -bad as their German paymasters., and must be brought to justice for this atrocious crime.
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