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Show BE SPIES DETAILS OF FiUJF BAGDAD Battle Raged During Fierce Gales and Blinding Dust Winds. LONDON, March 13, 6:40 p. m. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant General F. S. Maude, telegraphing late Sundav night, gives the following details de-tails leading up to and subsequent to the capture of Bagdad early Sunday: Saturday evening we' maintained close touch with the enemy on both banks of the Tigris south of Bagdad. -During the night the enemy evacuated evacuat-ed his entire trench line, which we pushed forward in close contact. Before Be-fore dawn on Sunday a gene ral ad -vance on both banks was ordered and at 5 :G3 a. m. we occupied the railway rail-way station, the city being entered shortly afterwards. Our cavalry pushed forward In pursuit and after slight resistance occupied Kazlmain, capturing over 100 prisoners and four damaged airplanes. Our gunboats now took up the pursuit. During tnis recent tignung nerr j gal ps and Winding- dust storms, the lack of watrr, away from the river, j and the vigorous pursuit made the operations arduous. ' Since February 23 the Turks had been busy destroying and removing everything valuable in Bagdad. A considerable amount of booty, nevertheless, fell into our hands, including in-cluding lar-e quantities of equipment, arms and ammunition. Fivp hundred-Turkish hundred-Turkish wounded also were abandoned bv the enemy. On the left bank of the Tigris he- tween 200 and oOO Turkish dead were counted on Saturday and 300 prisoners were taken. On entering the city of Bagdad the local inhabitants gave us a warm welcome. Slight dlst urbances occurred oc-curred In the city consequent upon tho Turkish evacuation, but complete order was restored when our troops entered. |