CHEERY REPORTS FROM MESOPOTAMIA.
' TOWNSHEND'S FORCE WELL, DUG IN. "' , LONDON, February 27. There are cheery-reports from Mesopotamia. Artillery fire during the day, and sniping by night, have continued during the month. A spell of settled weather has.set in, thougk the flood to the melting ;of the saows—is-«xje<ited jßhortly. ■ General Townahend sent* wireless message that he had'aninte «wßes at Kut-el-Anwa, and was ftcwang--vegetables. He asked for gramophone needles, and toeae< vers dropped into las camp by an aeroplane, Turkey categorically refuses to increase her effort in the Bagdad.campaign unless Germany sends 100,000 troops to "Constantinople. *■ ■
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1916, Page 5
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