MOVE ON BAGDAD
BRITISH FORCES VERY NEAR CITY IN SPITE OF IMPEDING FLOODS. ADVANCE UP EUPHRATES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. The British, advancing up the Euphrates from Basra, have occupied Luquait, about 50 miles south-eastwards of Ur. Extensive floods and a damaged bridge, eight miles westward of Bagdad, impeded the advance from Khannukhta, but a British ijnobile force has reached the neighbourhood of Kadaimain. about five miles north-westward of Bagdad.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1941, Page 6
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78MOVE ON BAGDAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1941, Page 6
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