IRE MIDDLE EAST.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14336, 12 February 1917, Page 5

IRE MIDDLE EAST.

MESOPOTAMIA.

CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH GAINS ; ON THE TIGRIS,

POSITIONS .CONSOLIDATED AND

EXTENDED

(Australian a-ni N.Z. Cable Association.) and Reuter.)

(lUweived Feb. 11. 11.40 p.m.) London, Fob. 10. A Mesopotamia- communique states that the positions gained oh tho 2nd. inst. have been consolidated. Our artillery several times bombarded tho liquorice factory, which is strongly held. . We secured and consolidated a portion of a new front line west of the factory, and further westward v.s secured and consolidated trenche*' on a frontage oi > 1200 yards.

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