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MESOPOTAMIA,
Gmneral Maude's Dispatch.
Lient. General Sir Stanley Mande's despatch dealing with the operations carried out against Kat and Bagded by the Mesopota mian Expeditionary Force was gecently issued." It deals with The work done between August
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1917.
our troops were pressing the followed vigorously. On the 25th enemy hard, and by the 19th his the retreat - wa rapid, with position bad became so difficult the cavalry and infantry follow- bat he voluntarily retired acrowsing on either bank, and the river the Tigris. During these opera craft of the Royal Navy pushing tions the fighting had been severe, up stream in hot pursuit. Mnoh mainly hand to hand, but the booty and many "enemy yomols, enemy, in spite of his tenacity, including those captured from us had more than met his match in fell into our hands. The paranit the dash and resolution of our was broken off at Amisiyeh 50 miles from Kut and half way to roope."
While this fighting was in pro- Bagdad, and a pause for re- greke Lieutenant General Marshall organisation was " made while gan his preparations for the re- Lieutenant-General Cobbe's foros daction of the Hei malient and the closed to the point. On the 5th 28, 1918, to March 31, 1917; extensive trench system which the movement began again, and an peried of seven months, of which Tasks bold stride the Hai river advance was made to Laji Bere the first three and a half were near its janation with the Tigria, the Turkish rear-guard was found devoted to preparation,
On the 25th the enemy's frontline well entrenched, it was attacked, pa s frontage of about 1,800 yards and defeated, and retired during Upon coming Command. was captured. There was heavy the night. General Mande continued the bombing fighting, sad the Tarks work of re-organisation began by made good use of skilfully con bis predsosor Lieut. General sealed guns and machine guns. Sir Percy Lake. The health and Is a series of counter attacks the eight miles below Bagdad. On "training of the 'troops who had suntered severely from the integre line, but a gallant charge seroes in the ice of a withering fre emy was able to recapture bill the 8th a crowsing was attempted summer heat was improved. the open by the Royal Warwicks and as this manoeuvre was tit Means of communication by rail, restored the situation. On the road and Fiver over a county 26th the sesault
to le impracticable, a force two ander Lieutenant-General Mar- difficult at say time and made Panjabi battalione was a comball was, ferried diffenls by both floods and
ECTORS the dronghia were perfected; and the fighting our hold on both banks position with guns from the right plete success, and in stubborn Tigris to enfilade the snemy lines of communications them of the river was increased. Our bank of the river. During the solved scoured against attack cavalry attempted to strike against night of the 8/9th further Reinforcements were scosmuist the enemy's rear via Bedrah and attempts were made to ferry the ed, resources were developed, and and Bersan, but the waterlogged river. Only one succeeded, and reserves of supplies, ammunition
ground held them and stores were smsaosed.
| landed a party of 70 of the Loyal
of
up. Op
with the enemy's line on the On the 7th we were in touch Bialab, a river joining the Tigris
By the beginning of December /February 1, the Cheshires led an North Lanoubirea on the further
For the Dext 22
attack which gave us further bank. 1916, movement was began ground, and on the 3rd, the hour, until the passage of against the enemy about Kut. The Davons and Gurkha Battalion the Tork stil occupied the same carried two lines of works and forced, (the detachment held on river WIE completely positions on the Tigris front held theas in epite of counter gallantly in its isolated position, which he had occupied during the attack, and artillery fire. That under constant close fire from the summer.. On the left bank they evening the enemy began to surrounding buildings, trenches held the hitherto unconquerable retire, and by the morning of the and gardens. On the 8th the Bannaiyat position which they 5th had fallen back to the cavalry and a portion of General bad strengthened and elaborated. Liquorice factory and a line easi Cobbe's force crossed the Tigris, Kut was protected on the right and west across the Dahra Bend. worked up to Shawa Khan and baal" by "a" system of trenches
The Liquorice Factory was well served by aeroplane soosie, running from a point on the river dealt with by bowitzer fire, and pushed on towards Bagdai. On three miles to the north-west sad on the 8th the King's Own effect the morning of the 10th qur circling beneath it cross the ed a valuable lodgment in the Khadari Bend until eat by the centre of the enemy's line which cavalry fought the way to a point
2 miles west of Bagdad railway' station, and in a blinding dust railway up to the station on the left bank of the Tigris. General Marshall had forced the Dialah at
storm followed the Decauville
the devot-
river Eni, two miles below the enabled us to extend rapidly on exit from the Tigris. This system both links. By the sight of the was continued to the north west 10th/11th it became known that The position gars the attack the enemy had given up his for good chance of access, and it ward positions and had retired to was decided to secure possession an inner line across the Dabra of the Hai, alear all the enemy Bend. On the 15th the fast two points early on the 10th, bad trennhes on the right of the battle for the position was opened Loyal North Lancashires,
linked up with Tigris, while, at the same timed by the Loyal North Lan and had advance against the so sapping his strength by con- shires, and after some dashing strong position of Tel Mabam- giant battle at Saunaiyat that be fighting by the Royal Welsh mod which mast either give up that position Fusiliers, the South Wales Border Daring the night the
covered Bagdad. or so weaken his line that a ers, the Buff, and the Degras, retired and General Marehall Crossing of the Tigris might be the enemy was pushed bodily to entered Bagdad amid manifeets- easily accomplished further west the Tigris, and by night only tions of scisfaction on the part The first movement was held about a mile of works. Two of the inhabitants. Too Gunboat. Ancesssfully accomplished on companies of a Gurkha battalion, flotilla proceding up stream in December 13 Lieutenant General acting on their own initiative, line ahead formation anchored Cebbe distracted the attention took there trenobes and on the off the British Residency, and of the enemy by s bombardment 16th the Dabra Bend was clear the two forces under Lieutenant- of the Sanaiyat lines, while of the enemy.
Generale Marshall and Cobba during the night of the 13th/14th
Tarks
After the fall of Bagdad pre-
To the
The foul action for the captors provided for the security of the the cavalry and Lieutenant of Kat low came: Lieutenant approaches to the Oity. An General Marshall's force track General Cobbe who had kept the immense booty which the enemy westward to the Hsi, surprised enemy constantly on the alert at had been unable to destroy was the enemy, and cleared both Sanaiyat began a threatening taken, including all the guns, banks of the river up to the Hai attack on the 22nd. He captured (rendered useless by General bridge-head which was strongly come of the works before him, Townshend) taken by the enemy held. By the 18th, Litutenant and we at once. aabjcted to at Ku'. General Marshall had fought bis heavy counter-attacks which the way forward antil we had won Seaforthe brillisatly resisted. Oa cautions were made to secure the command' of the river
up the night of the 22nd 23rd feinte safety of the British Army. stres m of the Khadairi Bend. were being made against the The operation gaye direct control of the Hai, and the Liquorice Factory and the line to the Husbardie Station, river, opposite Kat and opposite A brilliant operation carried our force upward on "the railway ens bied aa to threaten the enemy's Tarke were misled into thinking which the Black Watch and the Communications west of Shamran, bridging operations were to take Gorkhaw rushed on the night of while it safeguarded our own place at this point. The point March 14. The enemy's flight communications and opened out chosen was actually at the South prosperçus districts for our own end of the Shumran Band, West was so rapid that touch was not supply.
of Kut. Three ferries were front was extended north-east by obtained again. By the 18th our The enemy still clung to his set to work before day break on the capture of Baqubah on the Positions on the right of the the 23rd. The Norfolke effected Dialab, and the line thus moved Tigria in the Khadairi Beud. a Furprise lodgment with the first out towards the Russiane app- Here he menaced car commanica trip, but the other ferries carrying rosching from Persis. tions on the Hai, and be also had Gurkhas were met with a elaggor west the front wasalso consolidated it in his power to inundate por-ing fire, and only with difficulty by the occupation of Feloja on tions of our line. The enemy bald affected a landing. The Norfolks the Euphrates on March 19. Co- a strong line in fit, bare country, and Garkhse held on teneciously, operating with the movement of difficult for attack, Lieutenant and pushed upstream as bridging the kassians from Khaoikin our General Cobbe spent the time operations were commenced. By forces moved up the Dialah to hold Letween January 5 and 19, clear nightfall, as a result of the day's the retreating Tarks and Shabra- ing the Bend. The preliminary operations, our troops had, by ban was occupied on March 23. stage involved digging some their unconquerable valour and The enemy endeavoured to bar 25,000 yards of trench under try-determination, forced a passage car progress but during the night ing conditions Copelant rain and across a river in flood, 340 yards of 24th/25th and the day follow- exposure to enemy fire, but it was wide, in face. of. duly carried out. On the 9th the opposition, and had seenredig we forced our way up over Gorkhas and Mahrattas had fought|a|
the hills of the Jabel Haursin position 2,000 yarde in their way to the river bend on the de tb, covering the bridge head, range, and beat him though we left, after severe band-to-hand While this croming was proceed-of the difficulties of the country. were forced to withdraw because fighting. On the right our troops ing. Lieutenant General Cabbe On the 25th the enemy began made steady progress, and a heavy had secured the third and fourth converging movement down the counter attack got forward ander lines of Sannaiyet, and was work Dialah from Deli Abbas and along mist wae ing his way with bombs, deep the lait bank of the. Tigris from broken by the resolute resist into the maze of tranches. On the Shettel Adbaim, apparently, to. ance of the Manchesters; a24th the fight was resumed, the assist the withdrawal of the frontier Rifle Regiment, and a enemy fighting tenaciously, but Turkish forces before the Bas detachment of Sikh pioneers, the and was certain. General aians, Both these colamas were Lieatenint General Marshall's Cobbe carried the Sannaiyat brilliantly beaten back. cavalry west of the Hsi carried position and she enemy was now out successful diversions, and in complete retiremeat.
of
The report is brought to a
though they were hampered by Lieutenant-General Marshall close by the statement that the the mist they forced their way tick up the parait of the enemy total number of prisoners taken into-Hai Town and cecopied it|with dash, brake the enemy in the period" under review w for several days. By the 17th eight miles from Shamran and 7,921.
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