TURKS ROUTED.
IN MESOPOTAMIA FIGHTING.
LOSSES SEVERE,
(Press Assn.—Reed. 7.25 p.m.)
LONDON, April 22. The Turkish losses at Shaiba are estimated at 2500.
The Turks everywhere are in disorganised retreat, both by road and river. / Twelve Arab craft were overtaken and sunk, and 515 prisoners tfave been brought to Basra.
Our advanced cavalry occupied Nakhailah. No enemy is nearer than Rattavi, eighteen miles north-west of Nakhailah.
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Northern Advocate, 23 April 1915, Page 5
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