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Show CLOSE IN ON BAGDAD $ 3 & & MOSLEMS DEFEND CITY GENEEAL MAUDE, the English commander in Mesopotamia, who has led his victorious troops to within six miles of sacred city. f ' ""S i f . -. 1 i i ' it Turks Make Stand at the River; English and Russians Rus-sians Near Junction. j ONTX1X, March 10. The British I troops in liasopotamia on Thurs-I Thurs-I j day were engaging Turkish forces which were holding the Diala river line, six miles below Bagdad, in some strength, it was announced officially offi-cially upon advices from General Maude. The advance of the Russian forces in western Persia, with the capture of the town of Senne and Turkish positions near by, has brought the troops of the Russian emperor within twenty-five miles of the upper part of the Diala river, near the mouth of which stream the British are attacking the Turks. LONDON", March 10, 10:58 a. m. A Ttrrkish official report issued in Constantinople Con-stantinople under yesterday's date alludes al-ludes to the British operations against Bagdad as follows: "A small forco of enemy cavalry i' which attempted to approach our left wing on the Tigris was repulsed, with heavy losses." |