THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.
TURKISH ATTACK ROUTED NEAR
NINEVEH
BAGDAD BEING STRONGLY
ENTRENCHED
PETROGRAD, May 31/*
A considerable force of Turks on a ten-milfe front attacked the Russian column advancing on Nineveh. The attackers were routed with heavv loss.
The Turks are apparently the troops released by the Kut capitulation. Bagdad has, been placed in a strong state of defence by the best German methods, but probably the fate of the town will be decided at Nineveh, the loss of which mean the isolation of
Bagdad. The task of German Lake's force is now to ■ immobilise as many of the emeny as possible in order to' assist the Russians.
Probably the purpose of the ride of the. Cossacks to British headquarters was to arrange a point of operations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 3
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