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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1705, 19 December 1919, Page 5

Those who have fought over the saltencrusted plains of Mesopotamia know only too well what an enormous amount of expenditure will bo necessary before such,a desert will resemble anything like a rose, says a Morning Post writer. Before tho ' British engineers brought their electrjo plants, the streets of those ancient. cities of Busra, Amara, and Bagdad were wellnigh impassable after tho sun had set. To the initiated, Arabian nights are Arabian nightmares. Ah Arab chieftain said to tho present writer one night in' Bagdad, as we came through the bazaar: "We want the English. We hate the Turk. Ho does nothing for us. He gives us no education, no justice, no electric light, and no drains!" There was no doubt about it. for scarcely had he spoken than down came a torrent of ajops from the roof of a house above us.

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