Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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by the Turks,and having at her back a German railwaythrough Western Asia, with its terminus at theancient port of Basra, she would then havegained a position from which she could man-oeuvre after her way against British supremacyin the East. Finally, it was shown that GreatBritain had gained a new interest, and takenupon h«rself a new responsibility, by theacquisition of a valuable line of oil wells inPersian territory near the Turkish frontier, theoil being dostinf)d for the use of the BritishXavy. The chapter closed with a brief review of themilitary operations. This narrative showedlliut, before Turkey had declared hor.self, theGovernment of India had sent a brigade, uiidf^rBrigadier-General Delamain, to the island ofIxihnin, in the Gulf ; that immediately afterthe declaration of hostilities this small forcehad seized Fao, at the mouth of th«) Hfiatt-al-Anib, and pushe<l on sonm miles further upthe river ; that it hud then been joined by two HYl rut: TiMKs msTDHY uf Till: wail
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(M.lliotl & Iry. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES V. F. TOWNSHEND, K.C.B., D.S.O.,Who commanded the British Force beleaguered in Kut-el-Amara. more brigades ; that in the course of the nextfew weeks the combined force, now a divisionunder the command of Major-General SirArthur Bari-ett, had after one or two sharpfights occupied (November 23, 1914) the port ofBasra itself, and (December 9, 1914) the townof Kurna, nearly 50 miles farther north, atthe confluence of the Eujjhrates and Tigris ;and that by the capture of these points theBritish troops had established themselves in aposition not only to protect the oil wells, butto control completely the lower course of thecombined rivers, thereby blocking the Germanrailway scheme. In February, 1915, the Viceroy of India,Lord HarcUnge of Penhm-st, paid a visit tothe headquarters of the force, which was underthe control of the Indian Govermnent, andinspected some neighbom-ing points. He hadcome, he told the people of Basra, to see localcondition

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