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Show THIRTY MILES ABOVE BAGDAD British Recapture the Artillery Artil-lery Lost by Gen. Towns-hend Towns-hend a Year Ago. LONDON'. March 14, 6. 30 p. m The British have advanced 30 miles above Bagdad, it is announced officially. offi-cially. The statement says the British artillery ar-tillery taken by the Turks at the time of the surrender of General Town-, Town-, shend's army at Kut-el-Amara was re-! re-! captured at Bagdad by the British. The statement follows: "Telegraphing on Monday and Tuesday, Ien Maude, British commander com-mander in Mesopotamia, reports that our advanced detachments reached a point 3b miles upstream from Bagdad City during the coming rise of the river. The Bagdad Turkish small arms factory is in good repair. The railway rail-way work shops contain good service able machinery which is uninjured, also five locomotives and some rolling roll-ing stock. A large quantity of obsolete obso-lete ordnance, including some antique 'bronze guns, and masses of all kinds I of ammunition have been found in the citadel The guns which were cap-j cap-j lured from us at the surrender of Kui also have been recovered in Bag dad." Russians Capture Kermanshah. LONDON, March 14, 5:33 p. m The capture by the Russians of the Persian I town of Kermanshah 16 reported in an I unofficial dispatch received here today. to-day. Kermanshah is about 80 miles south j west of Hamad an, which the Russians captured soon after the opening of their new offensive, undertaken in connection con-nection with the British advance up the Tigris. It is about 90 miles from the Mesopotamian border and is almost al-most due east of Samara, to the east of which the Turks, defeated on the Tigris, Ti-gris, are reported to have taken up a posit ion. In February of last year the Rus slans captured Kermanshah and push j ed forward almost to the border. The defeat of the British at Kut-el Amara, however, resulted in the Withdrawal of the Russians in Persia and in July last the Turks regained Kermanshah |