HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES.
LONDON, 31st December.
A report from General Townshend states that the enemy asked for four hours' armistice to bury his dead arid remove the wounded before the fort which he attacked on Christmas Day. - Independent reports confirm the heavy Turkish losses sustained at Ctesiphon, also during General Townshend's retreat and recent attacks at Kut-el-Amara.
Our casualties in the Christmas fighting were 71 killed and 309 wounded.
Reinforcements are steadily pushing up.
High Commissioner's report : — LONDON, 31st Dec, 9.35 p.m. General Townshend reports that a village on the right bank of the Tigris was heavily fired by enemy rifles. There was no other righting.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 1, 3 January 1916, Page 3
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