IN MESOPOTAMIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1916, Page 5

IN MESOPOTAMIA.

HALTED, Ai'UIJSK'S FORCK IfiMfORAiUJ.Y STUCK UP. Received Jan. 12, 9.15 p.m. _ London, Jan. 12. ~**ftr. Chamberlain, in the House of Common-), read a cable which slated that owing to weather conditions in Mesopotamia, and the necessity for despatehing wounded by river, General Aylmers' force was still halted. The tents of the enertiy had been located sis fflUe* eastward of Kut-el-Amara, OcNERAL TOWNSKEND'S FORCES SURROUNDED. advaxcf <"iV in;n'i:>n vi)\\Li.. I.o!i.ion. .:a... 11. Xe«'«papers ]>nint nm thai, (iejicial Townshend at Kiiti-laina•••'. is surrounded, and has only heliographic and wireless communication with the main force. Apparently the Turk's are still in superior numbers, and there have been no definite British successes. Generals Aylmer an.! Kemliall left Aligerbi, « hundred mile.; sotitn-tast of Kutelamara, on January (i. Tlicv are endeavoring to relieve Geneinl Townshend. General Aylmer has made good progress, having reached Sheik-haad, tall" way to Kutelamara.

ATTFTHALIA

T.i.MiA. '*i-Hio;:ri-f "ill'. 12. 1.. • V Id t.hr request of r.ic liiuian '•» -..-i:£. inr Commonweal! !i is dispatching a wireless corps to .Mesopotamia, eousUtinjr oi fifty-three officers tad men. * EXCISES VO'.l SI.ACKKES. Sy.lnev. .T ; ,n. 12. Rpcrirtin* eui-ds .ire in. and tbow that a large percentage are unwilling to enlist. Tliere are various exciues, siu-h »s n demand for the internment of all Germans when conscription comes. The:e are manv evasive H 9& ÜBDtrtineat replies.