RACE FOR BAGDAD.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 283, 30 November 1915, Page 2

RACE FOR BAGDAD.

ANOTHER GERMAN ROMANCE.

LONDON, Npv. 27. A German wireless message that, in thQ fightin S against :170,(H>0 British troops the Turks wem successful in the neighborhood, of Bagdad a f<4 weeks ago. The British, assist«6Tby Canadians, Australians, and Indians, after U successful march from Egypt, arrived within tenjalpmeSes (6-f miles) of Bagdad, but did not oatch the Turkish troops napping. The latter drove the British a;disr tanra of forty kilometres (nearly tweily-five miles) from. Bagdad, «»- curing the safety of the city, and foiling a gigantf- Allies' campaign, including a r..-::ian march across *The Press Bureau comments^ thus on this remarfiable message: -Not a sin'o-le soldier—Canadian, Australian, or Indian—ever attempted the amazing'march from the Suez Canal to Bagdad."