ADVANCE IN MESOPOTAMIA
Mesopotamia official: Wo occupied Hit, on the Euphrates, yesterday morning without opposition. The Turks retired seven miles upstream. Hit, which the British have occupied, stands upon the last eminence of stone before the Euphrates enters the alluvial plain. Nebuchadnezzar secured stone for his palaces here. There are inexhaustible beds of bitumen, which fill the air with a smell similar to rotten eggs. Tradition says that the pitch from Hit was used for Noah's Ark and the Tower of Babel. Strategically, Hit is the natural outpost of Bagdad on the Euphrates road.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3339, 13 March 1918, Page 15
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94ADVANCE IN MESOPOTAMIA Otago Witness, Issue 3339, 13 March 1918, Page 15
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