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Show TURKISH FORCE ON WAY TO BAGDAD London, .Nov. 4, 1:33 p. m. A Central Cen-tral News dispatch from Amsterdam Quotes tho Cologne Gazette's Berlin correspondent with regard to the progress of tho British forces in Mesopotamia, Meso-potamia, tho gist of his comment being be-ing that with tho aid of guuboats on tho Euphrates river, tho British have been ablo to get closo to Bagdad with a relatively small display of force. The newspaper adds, however, that it is too soon to say whether the British will be able to occupy the city as they may be forestalled by Turkish forces which are on fhe way to Bagdad, a city, which the Gazette remarks, "has been much mentioned In German oriental politics." It advises ad-vises Germans not to foo a British Brit-ish occupation of Bagdad too seriously. seri-ously. oo |