THE PRISONERS FROM KUT

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11644, 11 August 1916, Page 5

THE PRISONERS FROM KUT

SUFFERING FROM PRIVATIONS. NO DRUGS AVAILABLE. London, Aug. 10. A traveller who saw the Kut prisoners in Northern Syria fstates that a number in the poorest condition, were marched towards Tarsus over the gap in the Bagdad railway, For some reason they were marched across the gates of Silicia and bach again. The traveller heard that forty officers were in Tarsus hospital, having evidently undergone great privations. There are no medical comforts, the Turks lacking drugs. PRISONER IN GERMANY. MR ASQUITH'S SON. London, August i). Mr Asquith’s son Claude is a prisoner in Germany. MUNITION WORKERS’ HOLIDAY Loudon, August t). Mr Henderson’s committee regard*' jng munitions workers’ holidays reports that no general scheme of relays of holidays is .practicable owing to the urgent need to keep up supplies, but, where possible, tour days’ rest should be given at the end of September, which would also enable the machinery to be overhauled.