THE KUT GARRISON.
NOT’ HEARD OF SINCE THE , SURRENDER. • TOTAL OF 3236 MEN. ! 1 LONDON, March 20. Speaking in the House of Commons. Mr Hope stated that 3236 officers and men, belonging to the Kut garrison, have, not been heard of since General Tbwnshend’s surrender. Authorities, he said, state that it is practically certain that all of them died during hundreds of miles’ march across the desert, where no provision was made for food, shelter, or medical treatment for them. All of them were very weak; owing to the privations of the siege. Many were suffering from dyuentry, and they doubtless fell out of the march and dhv by the wayside. About a fifth of the number, he added were British. Alt efforts to get information from the: Turkish Government had failed. ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1918, Page 2
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