Mesopotamia.
FLOODS AT KUT-EL-AMARA. ENEMY EVACUATE TRENCHES. TOWNSHEND WIRELESSES DAILY. [UnjtUD J > hl«a A«*OOIATTON.J (Received 8.20 a.m.) London, February 3. General Candler reports that a rise i" the river inundated the Turkish portion at Kute-el-Amara. The enemy evacuated the entire length of trenches on our north-west front, falling hack two thousand yards. General Townshend's reconoitring patrol advanced twelve hundred yards and occupied twenty-two rows of deep, with trendies miles of communications honeycombing the whole nosition.
General Towshend wirelesses daily to the force advancing up the Tigris.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 50, 4 February 1916, Page 5
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86Mesopotamia. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 50, 4 February 1916, Page 5
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