Mesopotamia.
ANOTHER BRITISH ADVANCE. AT THE GATES OF KI T. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.) (Received 6. 10.40 a.m.) London. Feb. 5. A Mesopotamia official report states: - Oil the night of Friday our cavalry teaehed a point on the right bank of the Tigris 25 miles west of Kut el Amara, opposite a. Turkish advance base. On Saturday west of the llai-Tigris junction we captured three successive lines of trendies on a 650 yards front and to a 100 yards depth, inflicting heavy losses. We now control the mouth of the Hai river opposite Kut el Amara. THE TURKISH REPORT. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.) London, Feb. 5. A Turkish communique asserts that the British assault recently cabled suffered the heaviest losses hitherto inflicted in Mesopotamia, 2000 being killed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 348, 6 February 1917, Page 5
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