Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1914 — WILDER THAN THE RUSSIAN COSSACKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILDER THAN THE RUSSIAN COSSACKS

Wild as the Russian Cossacks are reputed to be, the Kurds of the Turkish army are far wilder. They are such fanatical followers of the prophet that they verge on religious Insanity, and their methods of warfare are barbarous in the extreme.