BRITISH OCCUPY HIT, 70 MILES BEYOND BAGDAD.
SUCCESS ESTABLISHED WITHOUT OPPOSITION.
LAST POST ON EDGE OF MESOPOTAMIAN PLAIN. Australian and N.Z. and Renter. (Reed. 7.20 p.m.). LONDON, Mar. 10. A report from Sir William Marshall, commanding the British forces in Mesopotamia, states: We occupied Hit, on the Euphrates, TO miles beyond Bagdad, yesterday morning without opposition. The Turks retired seven miles upstream. Australian and N.Z. (Received 8 D.m.). LONDON, Mar. 10. Hit, which the British have occupied, stands upon the last eminence of stone before the Euphrates enters the alluvial plain of Mesopotamia. Nebuchadnezzar secured stone for his palaces here- There are inexhaustible beds of bitumen, filling the air with a smell as of rotten eggs. It is a tradition that pitch from Hit was used in the building of Noah's ark and the Tower of Babel. Strategically Hit is the natural outpost of Bagdad on the one Euphrates road.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16796, 12 March 1918, Page 5
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