MESOPOTAMIA.
A RAPID PURSUIT. LARGE CAPTURES HADE. Reuter's Service Received April 0, 5.5 p.m. London, April 8. Reuter's special correspondent in Mesopotamia telegraphs from Khanbaghda on March 30 as follows: Pursuit by armored cars was pushed forward yesterday 73 miles up stream from Anah More straeglers were brought in, also most important booty Ammunition dumps were found at Haditha and Anah The captures comprised 12? mjllion rounds of small arm ammunition, and 20,000 rounds of gun ammunition.
Captures since March 25 include f prisonera and much war material. Our total casualties are only 157 killed, wounded and missing. The correspondent pays a tribute to the extraordinary endurance and rapidity of movement of troops, armored, cars and aeroplanes, contributing to the success of the pursuit and the raid on Anah. whereby we completed the demolition of enemy war material oa the Euphrates front. "
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1918, Page 5
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