MESOPOTAMIA REPORT.
OFFICERS TO BE TRIED.
ARMY COURT AS TRIBUNAL. (Received 11 p.m.) LONDON. July 11.
Mr. Bonar Law announced in the House of Commons that those impugned by the report of the Mesopotamia Commission would be tried by an Army Court. All officers concerned in the inquiry had ceased to exercise any functions in connection with the Government.
RUDYARD KIPLING'S POEM.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON. July 11.
Rudyard Kipling has contributed a poem to the Morning Post in biting denunciation of the Mesopotamian horrors. He says that the dead heroes cannot return, and asks whether slothful politicians and administrators shall be allowed softly to slide back to power by favour and contrivance of their kind.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16590, 13 July 1917, Page 5
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