These gunboats are handy craft
News from the great world comes apace. How vast it all seems; how much more start-ling are these mighty upheavals when viewed from the silent unchanging desert. First the fall of Kut; Then the Irish rebellion; then the North Sea battle ; then the loss of Lord Kitchener; climax follows upon climax to provide us with food for thought and speculation, to impress on us how severed we are from the great events of life by guarding the plank of the Tigris army