IN MESOPOTAMIA

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3293, 16 July 1917, Page 3

IN MESOPOTAMIA

DEBATE IN THE HOUSE, .London, July 14. in the House of Commons, duriiig - the Mesopotamia debate. Mr. Charles Roberts said Lord Hardmge had beeu unjustly censored for a bold act ot courage in facing a possiblo rising in India, the result revealing ludia s loyMr. Lloyd George said he associated himself with tbe eloquent tributes paid to Mr. Chamberlain. Nothing in the report justified his resignation.. Vndoubtedly the report showed mismanagement. Thousands of gallant-lives had been lost under conditions of unspeakable torture. Either the system were blameable, perhaps both. If }± or the individuals working upon it were the individuals they should be punished, but they were entitled to a fair judicial investigation. It would haye'been unfair had 'the Government sjcted upon the report. It the House desired a statutory committee of inquiry the Government was prepared to propose one. It vyas absolutely indefensible that the House and the Government should be discussing sych_ a matter, He begged the House to rise above these things, and say to tlie Government, "Get ou with tho war."

SAD,

ONLY TWO SURVIVORS OFF THE VANGUARD,

London, July 14. The Admiralty reports that H.M.S. Vanguard, while anchored, blew up on the night of the 9th as the result of an internal explosion. She sank immediately. There >yere three survivors—toyo men 'and ah officer, but the latter has since died. Ninety-five of the crew (724 officers and men all told) were absent from tjie ship at the 'time of "the explosion.