Fit as Fiddles and as Hard as Nails

wards Zoology makes me look more kindly on the irritating pests of the desert night.
News of the world reaches us daily: the wireless station maintains regular connection with the base. Every evening Reuters telegram arrives. I suspect we are kept informed of the main events of the worls as fully as those in India and not many hours later than those at home. The newspaper padding and comments by the ignorant must wait till the arrival of the mail News from the Tigris improves; it could scarcely grow much worse. We learn that the Turks are evacuating their positions. Probably they feel the pressure of the Russians in their rear. Will that pressure withdraw them north to Baghdad? If so, the struggle in