The Hare School Magazine March 1918

Here the sand and the mountains are replaced by the green and smiling fields and palm groves forming the delta of the Tigris and the Euphrates. [...] A few miles from Abadan on the north bank of the Shatt-el Arab the Karun river flows into the stream from the Highlands of Persia and at the junc tion of the two rivers stands the pretty town of Mohammerah. [...] Prize steamers captured from the enemy ocean-going vessels and hospital ships are also to be seen lying at anchor across the river The domes and minarets of Basra City loomed before our eyes by the evening glow of the setting sun and the muffled hubbub of the city had a weird effect on us. [...] Dealing injury to the wounded and the dying upon women and children and the use of inhumane weapons such as the dumdum bullets and the German saw bayonets are some of the acts that all civilized European powers agreed to refrain from at the great international conferenCe held at Hague a few years back. [...] He said "Idleness is the ban of the body and mind the nurse of naughtiness the mother of mischief the devil's cushion his pirlow and chief reposal".