CARRY ON!
A STORY OF THE FIGHT FOR BAGDAD
BY
HERBERT STRANG
ILLUSTRATED BY H. K. ELCOCK
AND H. EVISON
HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW
TORONTO, MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, BOMBAY
PRINTED 1917 IN GREAT BRITAIN BY R. CLAY AND SONS, LTD.
BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E. 1, AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I A TELL NEAR BABYLON
II THE GAPING JAWS
III THE BARBER'S APPRENTICE
IV THE SHAVING OF BURCKHARDT
V SECRET SERVICE
VI THE DERVISH HEZAR
VII A MAD RACE
VIII ACROSS THE EUPHRATES
IX FRIENDS OR FOES?
X THE TRYST
XI THE TRAP
XII A REARGUARD ACTION
XIII IN THE BRITISH LINES
XIV THE ENEMY'S GUNS
XV A RAID
XVI CLOSING IN
XVII RAISING THE SIEGE
XVIII THE TIMELY BOMB
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
COLOUR FRONTISPIECE BY H. K. ELCOCK.
A DASH FOR LIBERTY (see p. 102),
DRAWINGS IN LINE BY H. EVISON.
CHAPTER I
A TELL NEAR BABYLON
Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," has been brought by Time'srevolution once more into the foreground of the history of the world.The plains where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob tended their flocks andherds; where the hosts of Sennacherib, Shalmaneser and Alexandercontended for "world-power" in their day; where the Arabs, heirs ofancient civilisations, reared a civilisation of their own until it fellunder the bli