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Northern Advocate, 22 December 1919, Page 1

Those who have fought over the saltencrusted plains of Mesopotamia know only too well what an enormous amount of expenditure will fro neeessnry before such a (jesdri will resemble nnything like a rose, says a London "Morning Post" writer. Before the British engineers brought their electric plants, the streets of those ancient cities of Busra, Amara, and Bagdad were well nigh impassable after the sun had set, f$ the initiated, Arabian nights arc Arabian nightmares. An Arab chieftain said to the present writer one night in Bagdad, as we came through the bazaar: "We want the English. We hate the Turk. He does nothing for «s. 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 slops from the rpof of a house above