General Maude is still vigoroualy following up the defeated Turks
in Mesopotamia. - On Monday he struck at the 13th Turkish Corps, which was entrenching on the Shatt-el-Adhaim, a hundred miles north-east of Baghdad. He caught them unawares, and after a stiff morning's fight drove them in full retreat into the Jebel Hamrin, the foothills of the Persian border range. Meanwhile the 18th Turkish Corps, which he routed in a severe action at Istabulat on April 21st. and 22nd, is digging itself in fifteen miles north of Samarra, en the Tigris. Mr. Candler's spirited account of this action, in which the Turks lost four thousand men, appeared in Tuesday's papers. The Turks were so cleverly outflanked on both wings that they retreated in a hurry, and had no time to destroy their invaluable rolling-stock—fifteen engines and one hundred and seventy-four trucks—at Samarra Station, the present terminus of the railway running north front Baghdad. General Maude's communications with his base at Basra. are muchalimplified., thanks to the industry of the German-engineers who built this line.
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