THE RETREAT TO KUT.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15046, 14 April 1919, Page 4

THE RETREAT TO KUT.

SPEECH BY GENERAL TOWN-

SHEND

A REMARKABLE EXPLOIT.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, April 3. General Townshend, in a speech at London, said that during the 90 miles* retr.eat to Kut with the Turks at their heels, his disciplined veterans never faltered nor lost a single man or gun. No wounded were left behind. The troops even:"burned- round and wiped out ~10,000 of " the Turkish. advance guard.