MESOPOTAMIA.
BRITISH HIT, A HISTORIC SPOT. deceived March 11, 7.30 p.m. London, March 10. Mesopotamia official: Wo occupied Hit, on the Euphrates, .yesterday morning, without opposition. The Turks retired seven miles up the stream. Hit stands upon the last eminent of stone before the Euphrates enters an> alluvial plain. It was here that Xolmehadneisar secured stone for hia palaces. Here aud there are inexhaustible beds of bitumen, filling the air with the smell of rotten eggs. It is a tradition that the pitch from Hit was used in the building of Noah's ark" and the Tower of Babel. Strategically Hit is a natural •utpost of Bagdad on the Euphartefc road. ■•
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1918, Page 5
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110MESOPOTAMIA. Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1918, Page 5
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