MIDDLE EAST

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13858, 19 April 1917, Page 6

MIDDLE EAST

OPEBATIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA, ENEMY' DECLINES-ENGAGEMENT; (A. ami N,Z. Cable Association ami ' Beuter.) LONDON, April 17. A Mesopotamia official message says: General Maude, telegraphing, yesterday, reports a night inarch and an advance on tlio right bank.Df the Tigris to within one and a-lialf miles of the. position occupied "by ; tlie 18th Turkish Army Corps, covering Istabalat station, ou tlio Baghdad Saniatra railway The euemy fell back: without offerng' any opposton. ;