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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2697, 17 February 1916, Page 5

Thero are two tilings in Kut-al-Amara tthat town on the Tigris where our forces are gathering strength for' ait' other spring at the Toe) which Sit' Marl; Sykes nas taught us to remember (say; the London "Chronicle"). In JCut, Jit tells ii 6, there is a minaret; and ovei the doors.of the, houses there is brickwork decoration. ( All...else is dirty' tumble-down, and insanitary; but these decorations and that < minaret-are as perfect) and exquisite in design, as the best ancient workmanship. From whjch he Infers that under the crust and filth of ages "the Arab fires of intellect, poetry, and art - survive. ' Deep down under the. wilderness and chaos iii; duced by centuries of evil rule there lies the capacity which made Nineveh Babylon, Persia, Parr.hia, and again Persia, and lastly tho Caliphate, tho centre of Asiati; culture, progress.-said wealth.* 8