24 MARCH 1917, Page 1
As we have written in a leading article about the
most interesting and promising situation on the Western front, wo will say no more on the subject here. There is little fresh BOWS from Me-cFo tam ia, but that little is good. North-east of Baghdad our troops have occupied Bahriz and the whole of Bakuba, which is a good supply eentro. The Turks are falling back as fast as they can on Khanikin, en the Persian border. Meanwhile the Turks in Persia are retreating before the Russians towards Baghdad, and according to the tele- grams in Tuesday's papers were twenty miles south-west of Ker- manshah. In Macedonia, near Monastir, the French have taken fifteen hundred prisoners, and. Monastir itself is no longer under fire.
