Mesopotamia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 10 May 1916, Page 5

Mesopotamia

j LAST DAYS IN KUT. ENEMY'S SOLICITUDE FOR GALLANT DEFENDERS. TOWNSHEND GETS TRIP TO CONSTANTINOPLE. SHORT RATIONS IN THE BELEAGUERED TOWN. fUNTTBT) Pbß*» A»*f>*■r.-.rum.j (Received 10. Jo a-»>-) Lo::"i\m, May'9. Mr Chander, war' correspo 11 d eht, states that before surrendering Gen oral Townshend destroyed the wireless.

I Khalid Pasha, in receiving the parlementaires (truce messengers) intimated that he was anxious the garrison should be well served with rations, and that General To v. nshend I especially, for whom he expressed proI found admiration, should receive every possible comfort. It is understood that General Townshend is proceeding to Constantinople with his aide-de-camp. " s "" '" The members of the ' gamson at Kut-el-Amara, .from the date of April. 18, w-er'e? subsisting on four jounces: of ration of flour daily, with a ration of horse-flesh. -ttynr a -i 'General Towrisliend. wag . 'nearing ithje end of -his,-Resources in January jyheri considerable stores of grain -were founcf, ■'• i' l plants, 'j , mostly *under-r ground. These were commandeered j and paid for, and furnished*'the gaW jrijson with three- months' food ohI gradually reduced scale, While six ; thousand Arab inhabitants, who were previously self-supporting, received the same rations as tlio soldiers.