Yet, one may ask, was the loss of the remains of this gallant division all loss to the British and their Allies? and may reply with confidence that it was not so. For that hazardous approach to Bagdad had held a numerous force of Turkish soldiers, while the resistance of our men at Kut had kept the enemy troops from operating in other parts of Asiatic Turkey. Indeed the absence of those sixty thousand Turks round about Kut aided not a little in the operations of the Grand Duke Nicholas, who, having established himself firmly at Erzerum, now launched his armies into Northern Turkey, and, sweeping on, captured Trebizond and many another base of value to our enemies. Those parties of Russian horsemen who had been operating on the Persian frontier marched south and east almost without interruption, threatening Bagdad and the retreat of those sixty thousand Turks mustered in the neighbourhood of Kut-el-Amara. Indeed the noble resistance of General Townshend's forces may be said to have helped the Russians wonderfully, and, seeing that Russia is our ally, that resistance helped Britain also. Geoff and Philip and Douglas Pasha joined hands at length with that relief force which had unfortunately failed to relieve General Townshend and his band of heroes, and, as we write, our two heroes are in harness once more and are preparing to fight beside their new comrades right on towards the heart of Mesopotamia. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN _At the Villafield Press, Glasgow, Scotland_ * * * * * STORIES OF WAR By CAPTAIN BRERETON "When Captain Brereton has a war subject to handle he always does it well."--=Westminster Gazette.= =On the Road to Bagdad=: A Story of the British Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia. =With Our Russian Allies=: A Tale of Cossack Fighting in the Eastern Campaign. =On the Field of Waterloo.= =With Wellington in Spain=: A Story of the Peninsula. =A Hero of Sedan=: A Tale of the Franco-Prussian War. =With Wolseley to Kumasi=: The First Ashanti War. =At Grips with the Turk=: A Story of the Dardanelles Campaign. =With Roberts to Candahar=: Third Afghan War. =A Hero of Lucknow=: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny. =With Joffre at Verdun=: A Story of the Western Front. =Under French's Command=: A Story of the Western Front from Neuve Chapelle to Loos. =With French at the Front=: A Story of the Great European War down to the Battle of the Aisne. =How Canada was Won=: A Tale of Wolfe and Quebec. =Jones of the 64th.= Battles of Assaye and Laswaree. =A Soldier of Japan=: A Tale of the Russo-Japanese War. =With Shield and Assegai=: A Tale of the Zulu War. =Under the Spangled Banner=: The Spanish-American War. =In the King's Service=: Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland. =In the Grip of the Mullah=: Adventure in Somaliland. =With Rifle and Bayonet=: A Story of the Boer War. =One of the Fighting Scouts=: Guerrilla Warfare in South Africa.