ASIA MINOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1916, Page 5

ASIA MINOR.

TURKS RETREATING. Petrograd, July 16. 'A communique says: In the direction of Erzingan we attacked the heightsouthward of Mamahutun and dislodged Turks from the fortified positions southwestward of Mush. The Turkish division which recently arrived from Thrace is retreating in the valley of the eastern Euphrates. ALLEGED BRITISH BLUNDERS. Times Service. London, July 16. Surprise is expressed at the increasing exposure of Mesopotamia mistakes. One extraordinary instance occurred on March 8. At dawn, after a brilliant night march, a British column, commanded by General Kemball, reached the great Dujailah redoubt at Es Sinn, two hours' march from Kut. The redoubt and the adjacent trendies were found empty, the Turks being on the other side of the Tigris, yet no attack was launched until 10 o'clock in the morning, when the Turks had crowded the positions. Mr. Chandler describes the long march in-the darkness and the discovery of the empty redoubt, but no further particulars are even yet allowed to be published. ENEMY BASE RAIDED. London, July 16. Official.—Two columns, starting from Torabuzeneima, on the Sinai shore of the Gulf of Suez, traversed sixty miles of difficult country and raided the enemy bases in the peninsula, capturing Btock and prisoners withov* )>uffering any casualties