Casualties in the Persian Gulf
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I read with much interest the article on the above subject by Captains Barber and Doyle in the March number of the Gazette. I was particularly interested in their remarks regarding the value of the first field dressing and the occurrence of tetanus in Arab and Turkish wounded prisoners. It may perhaps not be without interest to relate my small personal experience in regard to the above in another part of the Persian Gulf viz., Muscat. In a fight which occurred on the night of January lOtli and on the following day between a small force of Indian troops at Muscat and some 3,000 Arabs, the latter's casualties were estimated at about 500, as against 25 on
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