General Marshall in Mesopotamia began last week an advance in
force along the caravan road leading northward from Baghdad by Deli Abbas- to MosuL Last Saturday he occupied Kifri, a hundred miles north of Baghdad. The Turks retired in haste, but one of their columns was charged by our cavalry, who killed a hundred of them and captured five hundred and thirty-eight. Last Sunday the cavalry forced the passage of the river Ak Su, twenty miles•further north, and, pressing on through the night, they occupied the road well ahead of the Turkish rearguard. • On Monday our infantry, who followed rapidly, captured the town of Tuz Khurmatli with three hundred-prisoners and six guns. Twelve more guns were taken that day, with nine hundred more prisoners. On Tuesday our cavalry were at the Tauk River, ten miles from Kirkuk and ninety miles from Mosul.
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