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Show DEFEAT TURKS Oil MHKSOF IRIS IRITI8H AT MESOPOTAMIA WIN BATTLE FOR CONTROL IN IMPORTANT POSITION. Capture by German of Nanestl, on Sneth River in Roumanla, Hand to Hand Fighting Occur In Street. London. The British and Turks In Mesopotamia have been, engaged In rigorous fighting along the Tigris river near Kut-et-Amara. Both the London and Constantinople war offices of-fices claim successes for their troops la this region. The British official communication announces that north-ast north-ast of Kut-et-Amara, the British troops have driven the Turks from a imall strip of land they were holding on the right bank of the Tigris. King George's men are now in control con-trol of an entire trench section on a front of 2,500 yards to a depth of 1,100 rards. It adds that the right bank f the river also has been cleared ol Turks downstream from Kut, and that southwest of the town further prop-ess has been made. Constantinople says east of Kut the British launched three unsuccessful ittacks against the Ottoman positions, ind that the attackers suffered heavy jasualties. In the capture of Nanestl on the Se-reth Se-reth river In Roumania, hard hand-to-iand fighting took place In the streets In withdrawing from the village, Ger nun batteries raked the Russians as . they made their way across the bridges over the Sereth, inflicting heavy losses on them. With the fall sf Nanestl, 555 men and one officei were captured by the Germans. On the line in France near Loos the British la a daylight raid blew up 3ennan dugouts, causing many cas laities among the occupants. The ar Ullery duels have again become violent vio-lent in the Verdun sector. |