IN MESOPOTAMIA
BIG RESULTS NOT EXPECTED (Rec. December 18, 11.50 p.m.) London, December IS. _ With respect to the campaign, iff Mesopotamia, experts do not look for great immediate results from the advance. Probably. General Maude, could have taken Kut-01-Amara three months ago. The Turks unexpectedly evacuated the Es Sinn lines, and we might have pushed on, turning the Sanna-i-Yat entrenchments on the other bank, but General Maude preferred not: *to> move, as it would complicate the problem of food and water. General Mando has now marched 'through the Es Sinn: lines, occupied the waterway of Shatt-el-Hai and bombarded Sanna-i-Yat. Two light railways are being built, the river flotilla strengthened, and thehospital arrangements reorganised.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2955, 19 December 1916, Page 5
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