ON-THE-ROAD TO BAGDAD.
A LIVELY BATTLE.
ENEMY RETREATS: BRITISH IN
PURSUIT.
LONDON, Nov. 28. Accounts of the fighting along the Tigris show #iat the Turks were heavily intrenched behind barbedwire. They numbered thirty thousand, including lots of Arabs. "The Turks mined the river, but we bridged it during the evening and crossed over. The next day's battle. was lively for a few hours. Our gunboats crept up and made it too warm" for the enemy, who retreated, leaving; his guns. We captured sixteen hundred men and twenty guns. Reaching Kutelamara, we found the cavalry there.; This is,the place at which'the ■army has arrived '•before; the navy. The Turks fought amazingly well up to a certain.point, but suddenly crumbled up, and" are • now in . full flight for Bagdad. Our cavalry and ■ armored.'cars are in pursuit."
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 284, 1 December 1915, Page 2
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134ON-THE-ROAD TO BAGDAD. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 284, 1 December 1915, Page 2
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