Petrograd, March 15.
The military oritio of the "'Retch" writes:—The Turks, when we occupied Hamadan, realizing their danger, immediately sent reinforcements from Bagdad which were forced to return in order to guard the Bagdad Railway which was menaced by our impetuous advance. The with al of these reinforcements fai ed our operations at Kermanshah and the capture of Kerind, which is situated on the Indo-European telegraph route. Now we are about to march the 80 versta separating Kerind from the town of Hanykio, from which point we can attack the Turks in the rear of Bagdad, which is menaced from the southeast by the British. The issue of our troops in the direction of Bagdad threatens a final rupture of the communications of the Turkish Army in Mesopotamia with its supply basis and will prove the final blow to Turco-German strategy in Asia Minor.
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