Mesopotamia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 42, 24 May 1916, Page 5

Mesopotamia

BRITISH MAKING PROGRESS. The High Commissioner reports;— In Mesopotamia we are clear of the enemy as far as the Shatt-el-Hai, except small rearguards covering the Hai bridge, five hundred yards below the junction with the Tigris. Our mam force on this side reached the line Makusis-Dujailah on the north bank, i he enemy is reported to be still occupying tlie Sanna-i-Ya-t position. The weather is intensely hot, the temperatuie during the last few days being over one hundred degrees in the shade. RUSSIAN CAVALRY DASH. London, May 23. Tlie Russian cavalry that have reached the Tigris and joined up with Central Gorringe’s force, are probably |General Baratoff’s column which seized jKasr-i-Shirin, near the Thrysli froujtier, a fortnight ago. The Russians probably came from Kermanshah and Chardowar, over tlie Pushtikus hills to Bcdrai, and then over the desert, a ,total distance of 200 miles, through ! country inhabited by hostile Kurdish jhillsnicn. The achievement is a remarkably dashing one.