Mesopotamia
THE ADVANCE ON BAGDAD. TURKISH COMMUNICATIONS IMPERILLED. United Phess Association. (Received 8.40 a.m-) London, May 6. Newspapers, commenting on the Russian advance towards Mosul, point out that the communications of the Turks operating against the British are imperilled. FURTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESS. (Received 9.0 a.in.) Petrograd, May 16. -The Russians have occupied Mamaliutan, half-way between Erzerurn and Erzingan. TROOPS IN HISTORIC COUNTRY OF ASSYRIA. London, May 16. The Morning Post’s Petrograd correspondent says that Russia is making a strategic, instead of a tactical, attack on Bagdad, and has quietly moved to Mesopotamia by the shortest and easiest road. Their columns are now within fifty miles of the ancient city of Nineveh, where the Bagdad railway reaches the Tigris, but 'doubtless the railway is already cut. The Russians are at Rowanduz or Rowandiz. in rich fertile country, within cavalry ride of Nineveh. and the vanguard is close to Arbela, where Alexander the Cl rent defeated Darius.
TURKS REINFORCED BY GERMANS. RUSSIANS CONTINUE PROGRESS. Condon; May 15. The Daily Chronicle’s Petrograu correspondent r: v ,'at the Turks in the Caucasus have been reinforced uy twenty thousand Austro-German infantry, cavalry, and artillery, in tiio hope of breaking the Russian i ntro between Erzerum and Eraiugan, bin the Russians are advancing on the I coast west of Trebi/.ond, and are also converging on the Tigris bases, j It is reported that the Turks from Kut have been despatched north to bar the Russian advance to Bagdad. Petrograd, May 15. A communique says: We .captured Rowanduz, in the direction of Mosul, with ammunition depots and convoys of food. Cavalry are hotly pursuing.
THE RESISTANCE AT KUT. GENERAL TJ3VVNSH END'S APPEAL [United Frkb« Association. 1 ' London May 15. Mr A. G. Hales,'in the journal John Bull, attacks the Government for the surrender of Kut. He says he knows that General Townshend expected the Government to send an army strong enough to save him and the Empire’s honor in the East, and quotes a letter from General Townshend, saying: “J send you letters after the battle o! Ctesiphon, where we won a pyrrhic victory, having 4500 killed and wounded in an army of 14,000. The enemy has four to six divisions against my one. I am amazed that our politicians did not know that these heavy reinforcements had reached the Turks. Had 1 got into Bagdad I should never have got out. again. All this has come about through not heeding my protest when ordered to take Bagdad.” The Times, in a leader discussing Florence Nightingale’s birthday, says: “There were no means for the treatment of more than halt the wounded at Ctesiphon, and the wounded lay out' in the rain for hours after the action. They were brought down the river m boats without shelter, and in the wet and bitter cold. Some of the ooats of wounded got mixed up with other tiaffic and the men were without food, for’ hours after falling. The commonest medical necessaries were lacking on the voyage downstream. One hundred \youndod were sent down with one doctor, and rip orderlies aiul ; no servants, and with unsuitable diet and a shortage of the simplest appliances for the wounded. Wounds were not dressed for days, and many died front dysentery and exposure. No blame 'tvas attached to the doctors, who did their duty manfully and nobly, but the task was impossible. They were always shorthandbd, arid when they sickened and broke down they were not relieved. We deliberately withhold many particulars of the horrible and pitiable story, trusting that we have told enough to awaken "the conscience of the nation and parliament.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 36, 17 May 1916, Page 5
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600Mesopotamia Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 36, 17 May 1916, Page 5
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