MESOPOTAMIA
FALKENHAYN'S AIM.' RECAPTURE OF BAGDAD Received Nov. 15, .10.20 p.m. London, Nov. 15. General von Falkenhayn has established headquarters at Aleppo, and is advertising great preparations for the re-capture of Bagdad. The keynote of our operations to defeat this enterprise is that General Maude occupies a position enabling him to hit all round. He advanced up the Tigris and destroyed all the enemy Btorcs. The Turks had two divisions there. They have now fallen back for fifty miles, General Maude coming back to his original positions, there being no advantage in keeping the advanced positions. SUCCESSFUL ACTIONS. TURKS GO INLAND. Received Nov. 15, 10.25 n.m. London, kov. 15. -Mesopotamia, official: After successful actions at Tekrit on the sth and ilth we remained there until the Bth, the whole of the Turkish forces ■vithdrawing thirty to fifty miles northward. Whim the battle field was eloared, wo returned to our original m,sition» according to n!...r
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1917, Page 5
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154MESOPOTAMIA Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1917, Page 5
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