MIDDLE EAST.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13984, 21 November 1917, Page 6

MIDDLE EAST.

OPERATIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA. DEATH OF GENERAL MAUDE, • PASSING OF A BKAVE SOLDIER, (Australian nnd N.Z. Cable Association] . LONDON, Novembor IS). General Maude, Coiiiinander-in-Chiei of the British Forces in Mesopotamia, i: '!>• ■ ' LONDON, November 19. The War Office reports that Genera Maude died, in Mesopotamia, nftcr i brief ilfncss. |General Sir Stanley Maude came 01 a fighting family. Hi) was born ii IS(M, and was thus fifty-three years oJ age. lie entered the Army in 1884, wa: a major in 18!)!), lieiiti'iiant-colonel ii .1907, colonel in ID.II, and major-genera and divisional commander in 1015. Hi served in the Soudan ami the Soutl African Wars,'being wounded in th< latter . iijul .mentioned five times'in de spatches. After- the defeat and cap turc of General Townshend and his gal Inut force at Kut-el-Anmra in IfllG General Maude was sent tiv Mesopo tamia, and, with a completely reorgan isod nniiy, jnllicteil a sovcro tlofea on tho Turks nt Kut, the scene of tin disaster which had overtaken liis pro deccssor.. This victory was succeedei by a vigorous'advance up the Tigri: and ,tho subsequent capture of Bagh daiU G.eueral Maude displayed a greal .capcity-'for leadership,] ■