MESOPOTAMIAN DRIVE.
• -—»- BRITISH OCCUPY HIT. TURKS RETIRE SEVEN MILES. Australian and N.Z Cable Association and Eeuter’s. (Received March 11, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, March 10. We occupied Hit, on the Euphrates, yesterday morning opposition. The Turks retired seven miles upstream. Hit, which the British have occupied, stands upon the last eminence before the Euphrates enters the alluvial plain. Nebuchadnezzar secured the stone _for his palace here. There are inexhaustible’ beds of bitumen, filling the air with a smell like rotten eggs. It is a tradition there that pitch from this was used for Noah’s Ark and the Tower of Babel. Strategically, Hit is the natural outpost of Bagdad on the Euphrates road.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4815, 12 March 1918, Page 5
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111MESOPOTAMIAN DRIVE. Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4815, 12 March 1918, Page 5
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