TURKISH POSITIONS AT KUT FLOODED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 February 1916, Page 5

TURKISH POSITIONS AT KUT FLOODED.

ENEMY FALLS BACK OVER A MILE BRITISH PATHOLS OCCUPY 22 BOWS OF TRENCHES. (Received 8.20 a-m.) LONDON, Febnmry 3. A rise in the River Tigris inundated the Turkish position at Kut-el-Amara, and the enemy evacuated the entire length, of trenches on our north-west front, falling back 2,000 yards. General Townshend's reconnoitring patrol advanced 1,200 yards and occupied 22 rows of deep trenches and miles of •Jmmunication trenches honeycombing the whole, position. General Townshend eends wireless msaeagea daily to the force advancuie up the Tigris. ' ■ The operations- referred to in these- cahles form one of the mos<- nn +»hio events of the iror, Rnseia'e progress ha-vinz a very hnrorW ? • the allied campaign in the SeTSTMiddle Ea^tEarly^e treops concentrated for an attack on Erzeroum, but the arrival nf h Turkish reinforcements and a shortage of big guns and munitions lilS them to shift the field of operations to the" G ™?ffi Nicholas ie in charge of the present attack, which has develop oTth flank, pivoting on Batoum. The left fltmk swings couth-cart * h the extent of the operations indicates that a 4rr coraM«™w * »»*»> «* employed. In addition to the march on faTp been captured by the Russians, who must now be within WOnriS The British diversional raid up the Tisris OB th. tI [^ of Bagdad, with Bagdad, compelled the enen/to fc^l^^JStoSwrT* 50 ": Towshend. His for W is locked up in KuuSSSTtol advancing to the relief, and when he reaches £"? " £ EEtfs :?r "™ c •™" sh " w - "■assy's