IN MESOPOTAMIA.
THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. TURKS DEFEATED NEAR MOSUL, j ! PETROGRAD; May 31. I f A considerable force of Turks on a'l 10-miio front attacked a Russian column advancing on Nineveh (sic). The attackers were routed with heavy losses. The' Turks were apparently troops.''released by the capitulation of" Ku't-el-Amara.. Bagdad has been placed in a strong state of defenc« by the best Gorman methods, but probably the fate of the town will be decided at Nineveh, the loss of which means tho isolation of Bagdad. The task of Lieutenant-Geueral Sir
1 Percy Lake's force, is now to iinmobiliso as many oi' r.lji-'. enemy ris jiossiul-? in .order to assist the JUissinus." Probably the purpose of the ride of the Cossac'ku From Persia to liritish Headquarters on the Tigris was to arrange the point of operations.
[t is probable thiii- Nineveh is mtouded^ to refer to Mosul. The ruin* of ancient Ninevrh are on the plateau >' on the eastern bank of tho- Tigris opposite Mosul. ' •
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8464, 1 June 1916, Page 5
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