General Allenby's cavalry entered Aleppo on Saturday last and, pushing
on, occupied Muslimie, where the Syrian line joins the Baghdad Railway. The Turkish communications with Mosul on the Tigris were thus interrupted. A week earlier General Marshall from Baghdad had begun an advance on Mosul, moving on both • banks of the river and also along the main road through Kirkuk, which was occupied on Friday week. The Turks, hustled by our cavalry and armoured cars and outmanoeuvred by the triple advance, abandoned their positions and fell back. Their main body on the west bank of the Tigris held strong positions near Kalat Shergat, fifty miles south of Mosul. Our cavalry 'from the east and our armoured cars from the west on Monday occupied the road further north, between the Turks and Mosul, while our infantry attacked the enemy in front. The battle was still raging on Tuesday, when a thousand Turks who had attempted to escape northward were cut off by our cavalry in their rear. The fate of Mosul and of the last Turkish army opposing us was probably decided before the armis- tice became known on the Tigris. The essential unity of the Palestine and Mesopotamian campaigns is thus demonstrated at last, though the success of both was dependent upon our success on the Western Front.
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