MESOPOTAMIA.
'DWVING THE WFQGE IN* CAPTURE OP BITUS. \A '' 0 AS IMPORTANT POSITION. , deceived March 3, E. 5 p.m. . . . London, Msiv: J. ' Ttt Russians stormed and captured Bit Us. Petregrad,- March 4. The capture of Bitlis is the -.eceni ■fnatweafe in the Turkish front, giving the RUuians the whole «f the Lake Van region. It severs the Turks operating i» th«. Mush region fram these In th> jriiuuiy of Lake Urmia. flhtlis, pophlation 46,660, is a town in Asiatic Turkey, 165 miles east-north-Hit 'Of Olarbekir, en the upper Tigris, and Ijea in a ravine, surrounded by hills 2600 ft. high. Ithas a large-factory for the (Manufacture »f firearms. Here, in I Jot, th e Persians defeated Selyman the gitfifycent.)
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1916, Page 5
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119MESOPOTAMIA. Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1916, Page 5
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