MESOPOTAMIA.
A FURTHER ADVANCE. GOOD WOIiK BY CAVALRY. t * '. ■, ReceiveS Feb. I, 5Ja p.M. 4 ' London, Feb. 9. A roport from Mesopotamia states:-*' /. We advanced 300 yards on the night «*v - January 28-20 on the right bank of tilt V Tigris, and effected a junction* We ~-' also advanced from 200 to 300 yard*' ' westward of the Tigris and the Hal '.'■■ Eastward of the Tigris and Hai We ad* "| - *. vanced 800 yards of our front. Our; ' casualties were slight. Our cavalry on Wednesday secured - huge numbers of stock, and a quantity' .'• of grain. We captured on Thursday the . penultimate line ol trenches eastward of the Tigris and Hai, and on the rjgh* •> bank of the latter river repulsed counter-attack. We .attacked and cap-' f i tured trenche3 westward of the TJfriat and Hai, and killed a Urge Buatfwr of the enemy, but we were subsauentlyj' compelled to relinquish a portion of thV '• ground gained. . i Our cavalry throughout tie -lattejtf operations successfully operated £&tjj'" v.ard of Kut el Amara. . ~*>-+-'ZS£ \
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1917, Page 5
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