CAVALRY PURSUIT IN MESOPOTAMIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3023, 9 March 1917, Page 5

CAVALRY PURSUIT IN MESOPOTAMIA

TURKISH EQUIPMENT STREWS THE COUNTRY BRITISH NEARING CTESIPHON "*' An official report from Mesopotamia stales that the ed the Turkish rearguard on March 5 at Lajj, near Ctesiphon. Tlm'onemVs booty is strewn over eighty males ot country, mi jt is ; m p ogsib , e to nla ' ];6 accurate estimates of tho captures. thirty-eight guns have up to tho present been salvaged from tho river.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-R cuter. DISTINGUISHED SERVICES REWARDED. „ ■ „ ~, , , , ~ , London, March 7. Maior-General .Maude has been promoted Liouteiianl-Gciieral for his distinguished services in Mesopotamia.—Renter. THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE (Roc. March 8, 8.20 p.m.) »t> ■ «• i • ' i , London, March 7. A -Russian official communique states: "Wo have taken possession of the w ' a r\r e l > ™ g - th ° Tl,l * s > wh«» are retiring towards kangaver. Wo are fighting the fleeing enemy near Sfrne, in tho direction °. f Bl «' a l> J™ 1 are continuing the pursuit m the direction of Dovlotabad "- Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. FIGHTING ON THE EGYPTIAN FRONT TURKS FORCED FROM STRONG POSITION. ■. ,»., ' ~. _, . > _„ ,„ London, March 7. «„„ .? S•! rep ° f° m N&'fr 1 Th< ? T,lrks *l»«ndoncd a. strong position at Sheilciiuj-p westward of Shollal, on which they had spent two months in constructing defences. Yesterday our aircraft dropped a ton of hiMi oxpiosivcs on troops and railway trams.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.-Reuter. '