IN MESOPOTAMIA
TURKISH POSITION SURPRISED. SUCCESSFUL NIGHT MARCH. ENEMY ADVANCE POSTS RETIRE. (High Commissioner's Cable.) LONDON, 1.10 p.m. Tuesday. Mesopotamia official: To the right of the Tigris we advanced by a night march to within a mile and a-half of the position occupied by the 18th Turkish Army Corps covering Istableat station, on the Bagdad-Samarra railway. The enemy's advanced troops fell back, not offering any opposition. i-
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13463, 18 April 1917, Page 5
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