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Show OEFEfSsl BANKS OF MS BRITISH AT MESOPOTAMIA WIN-BATTLE WIN-BATTLE FOR CONTROL IN IMPORTANT POSITION, i In Capture by Germans of Nanesti, or Sereth River in Roumania, Hand to Hand Fighting Occurs in Streets. London. The British and Turks in, Mesopotamia have been engaged in. vigorous fighting along the Tigris-river Tigris-river near Kut-et-Amara. Both the London and Constantinople war offices of-fices claim successes for their trocps. in this region. The British official communication announces that northeast north-east of Kut-et-Amara, the British troops have driven the Turks from a small 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 yards. It adds that the right bank of the river also has been cleared of Turks downstream from Kut, and that southwest of the town further progress pro-gress has been made. Constantinople says east of Kut the British launched three unsuccessful attacks against the Ottoman positions, and that the attackers suffered heavy casualties. In the capture of Nanesti on the Sereth Se-reth river in Roumania, hard hand-to-hand fighting took place in the streets.. In withdrawing from the village, German Ger-man batteries raked the Russians as they made their way across the bridges over the Sereth, inflicting heavy losses on them. With the fall of Nanesti, 555 men and one officer On the line in France near Loos the British in, a daylight raid blew up German dugouts, causing many casualties cas-ualties among the occupants. The artillery ar-tillery duels have again become violent vio-lent in the Verdun sector. |