MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN
AT KUT-EL-AMARA.
GENERAL TOWNSHEND'S POSITION.
LONDON, February 3. Mr Candler, the Daily Mail's correspondent, reports that owing to a rise in the river the Turkish portion of Kut-el-Amara has been inundated. The enemy have evacuated the entire length of the trenches. Our north-west front has fallen back 2000 yards. General Townshend's 'reconnoitring patrols have advanced 1200 yards, and have occupied 22 rows of deep tranches. There are miles of communications honeycombing the whole position. General Townshend is in daily wireless communication with the British forces advancing up the valley of the Tigris. QUIET IN ARMENIA. TURKISH REINFORCEMENTS. (Times and Sydney Sun Sendees.) PETROGRAD, February 3. A great calm prevails along the whola frontr. The Russians have commenced to make assaults on Erzeroum, bat the cotmtry is absolutely roadless and the cold most intense. The troops are compelled to drag their big guns through passes that are 9000 ft above sea leveL The Turks have 14 army divisions on the Persian frontier, also a nnmber of irregulars and large bodies of Kurds. The Russians assert that several Turkish regiments have been annihilated in recent engagements. \ Though it is a long way from Erzerotrm to Constantinople, the Turks are rushing reinforcements into Armenia.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16610, 5 February 1916, Page 7
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