THIRTY MILES BEYOND BAGDAD
RAPID ADVANCE OF THE BRITISH GUNS LOST AT KUT RECAPTURED Tho High Commissioner reports:— I London, Maroh M, 6.45 p.m. Mesopotamia official report: Our advanced detachments are thirty niilos further upstream past Bagdad. < Steps are boing taken to prevent the 'flooding lof the city during the coming rise of the river. The guns captured froiri General Toirnshend at Kut-el-Amara were recovered in Bagdad. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE KING (Rec. March 15, 5.20 p.m.) m , _ „ . . London, March 14. The Press Bureau states: His Majesty the King, in acknowledging the congratulations of the Allied Sovereigns and heads of States on the'capture of Bagdad, expresses Lis confident belief that the success of the advances of the Allies )b another stage on the sure road to victory.—Au.s.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Router. * i RUSSIANS CAPTURE KERMANSHAH (Rec. March 15, 8.20 p.m.) . L'onrlon, March' R Tho Russians have taken Kenaanshah.—Esoler. The Press Association dispatch covers the same gronnd as ilir limlrCoiiimissioner's, and adds: "The small arms factory at Bagdad i- i;i good repair and the railway workshops contain gs&jured goods, scrriceable machinery, five and rolling steak"
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3029, 16 March 1917, Page 5
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181THIRTY MILES BEYOND BAGDAD Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3029, 16 March 1917, Page 5
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