MESOPOTAMIA.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14154, 17 April 1916, Page 6

MESOPOTAMIA.

London, April 14, 8.5 p.m. Sir Percy Lake reports that on the afternoon "of April I'itli our forces on the right south bank of the Tigris forced back the enemy's advanced lines over a distance varying from H to 3 miles. To do so we had to cross an inundated belt intercepted by deep cuts 500 to 1200 yards wide, extending from tho Tip-ris *to the Umm-el-Brahm marsh.-"On the left bank 'vater from the mm-sho* was drive:v by n n:;!:lh-west (•••:-] t , into hcav.c of 1!k«. enemy s tn-nch-^s at K'-i.nuaivfit. Tlio toicni.y worn heiivily pun'ishf-1 vm tlicy to<;k refu»v i'j.-om the (load in nwv positions.