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Show British Detachments Advance. LONDON, Dec. 26, 10:05 p. m An of-iilal of-iilal statement on the Mesopotaniian I ampaign was Issued tonight, reading: On the 22nd. British detachments advanced to the right bank of the Tigris. Their position subsequently has been consolidated and extended south and east of Kut-el-Amara. The enemy's trenches on the right bank of tiie Tigris, southwest of Kut-el-Amara, have been systematically bombarded. Our cavalry by a night march reached and destroyed Gassabs Gas-sabs fort, twenty miles southeast of Kut, which had long been a base of operations of the hostile Arabs. Sixty tons of grain were destroyed, cattle were captured and a number of hostile hos-tile Arab encampments were burned. |