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MESOPOTAMIA.

FIGHTING FLOODS AND ! TURKS. ; . ( DIFFICULTIES OF BRITISH ' ADVANCE. ; . ! Received April 20, 9.5 p.»t, L'ind«, April 20. General Candler, reporting from tne Mesopotamian front, fay- 1 :, We are fighting the Tigris floods as well as the Turks. Much labor has be*n spent in building bunds to save our camp from inundation, and often it is difficult to keep up communications with the firing line. After a thunder storm of extraordinary violence on the eleventh there was a waterspout, and in a hurricane on the twelfth' the water came forward in the trenches likl a wave, swa»ping kits and rations. Some of the troops had to swim out. The Turks were even in a worse plight, , and the Highlanders' machine guns mowed down many who were escaping from the flooded trenches. A good road is being constructed, and as we advance m»tor ambulances and hospital boys clear the wounded. A TURKISH IIEPORT. THE POSITION AT KUT. • ' Received April 21, 10.55 p.m. Amsterdam, April 20. A Turkish communique says: The position of the enemy at Kut is becoming very critical. The commander, in •rder to avoid food difficulties, made i«e papulace evacuate the town. He expected aeroplanes to drop small bags of flour. Fighting on the Caucasus front is violent, especially in the Chorokh sector, where the enemy's attempted advance cost him heavy losses. The communique admits that the enemy, prafiting by the support of warships, is getting the upper hand at LariI MB.

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Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1916, Page 5

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MESOPOTAMIA. Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1916, Page 5

MESOPOTAMIA. Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1916, Page 5

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