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Identifier: cradleofmankindl00wigrrich (find matches)
Title: The cradle of mankind; life in eastern Kurdistan
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Wigram, W. A. (William Ainger), 1872-1953 Wigram, Edgar Thomas Ainger, Sir, 1864-1935
Subjects: Kurds Kurdistan -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nd the regular troops from Julamerk.The Agha of Chalt brought his forces against Salabekan andTkhuma; and Sutu Agha of Oramar assailed Jilu and Baz.The Christians were outnumbered on all sides and weremuch worse equipped than their enemies; for except for asmall supply of rifles and ammunition which they had ob-tained from the Russians their arms were all sadly obsolete. And yet the general result of this great combined attackwas failure. Qudshanis was pillaged and burned and theValley of Lizan was occupied. So also were the villagesin the Sapna and Berwar valleys; but these were all openand isolated, and had never been regarded as tenable.The attacks on Jilu. Chumba and Salabekan were all threeheavily repulsed. Thus, after a weeks hard fighting the * This is not preciselv the epithet that is usually applied toNineveh in Scripture; but a touch of national prejudice changesthe point of view. . The Assyrian Tyrtceus was a refugee fro n Serai,near Van. t See pp. ^11 et seq. X See p. 317.
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368 OUR SMALLEST ALLY Assyrians had lost only the outskirts of their territory onthe right (or western) bank of the Zab, and had kept all theirkey fastnesses (on the eastern side of it) intact. It was onlythe first round certainly, but the Turks had been foiledfor a season; and it was hoped that the Russian operationsin Armenia might eventually bring them relief. Then followed a deed as brutal and dastardly as it wascharacteristically Turkish. Hormizd. Mar Shimuris eldestbrother, a young man of three-and-twenty, had been atConstantinople for his education—at the Turkish Govern-ments own invitation—for a period of over two years. Assoon as Turkey entered the war, he had been arrested andplaced in confinement, and obviously could have had nopersonal responsibility for any of the events that hadoccurred subsequently. He was now sent under guard toMosul to be used for the foulest of blackmail. The Vali of that city was no longer worthy old Tahir.*With the good luck that had generally

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