MESOPOTAMIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 March 1918, Page 5

MESOPOTAMIA.

BRITISH STILL GOING. LONDON, March 10. Mesopotamia official —We occupied Hit, on the Euphrates, yesterday morning without opposition. The Turkish retired seven miles up the stream. AN INTERESTING SPOT. LONDON, March 11. Hit, which the British have occupied, stands upon the last eminence of stone, before the Euphrates enters the mluviStplain. Nebuchadnezzar secured sto» for his palaces here, inexhaustible beds of bituthe air with a smell of Totten eggs. It fc a tradition that pitch froi i Hit was used for Noah's "Ark and Lh'e Tower of Babel, Stratc/r-v ally, Hit is the natural outpost of B' :;dad on the Euphrates road."