"تاريخ الحرب الكبرى استنادًا إلى وثائق رسمية. الحملة في بلاد الرافدين ١٩١٤-١٩١٨. المجلد IV". [و‎‎١‎٨‎٨] (٥٤٠/٣٨٠)

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GENERAL SITUATION 3 15
was also on its way from the Little Zab to join him having
been ordered forward from there at 7 a.m. ifter airmen had
of P Alt e U n n 0 K 6 prL ° f ^ TUrkiSh movement from th e direction
At 4.20 p.m. General Cassels learnt from an air report that
the enemy s position was unchanged and that the 17thDivision
guns were still carrying out a bombardment. About 5 p m he
saw two Very lights which had been fired on the west flank of
M a 5 m p T m U t Sh P0S1 * 0n :, b K Ut had no idea what the y indicated
he was stfll with", , ] ° med the Gurkhas > and at dusk
n - 1 any lnform ation in regard to the result
of the 17th Division attack. He decided that during the nLht
gunTshould* 2 bomb th6 ene ^ y fadng him and t^his
the enemvW^^ he rf rea u t0 the south - we st, across which
NortonTo Y f Cape< He directed Genera l
iN orton to do the same, but heard that the latter's guns were
practically without ammunition. At 10 p.m., however he
heard from Corps Headquarters that the 17th Division had not
becW h tiN°X ete SUCCeSS ' .ft* the situation the re would not
be clear tm the morning and that, although the 17th Division
would hold what it had gained, it had no hope of mlk ng
progress during the night. F g
At dusk, there were still no indications of any enemy move
ment down the Little Zab and the headquarters 55th Infantry
MJh • ‘r 6 V r* h EaS * Surre y Re e ime " t > tw<: > sections 24<*h
Machine Gun Company and B/337th Field Battery were on
battalion^ f 6 T Fa *' ha * Conse q u c»tly the remaining
attahon and machine gun sections of the 54 th Infantrv
Br I gade , le , ft . 1 the Llttle Zab at 7 P-m. to join General Sanders. Y
Ihe details, given in the different war diaries and in all
on n S ' + °n thG 17th Division operations after midday
the 29th October are very conflicting and it is consequently
only possible to be certain of the general trend and results
the fightmg The extended front, the broken nature of the
ground the exhaustion of men and animals and the shortage
ol cablej for communication seem to have been the main
reasons for this uncertainty, which persisted till well after dark
r th f 1 5 ead J ng ranks of the Highland Light Infantry
and i/lOth Gurkhas had gamed positions within about four
hundred yards of the enemy’s trenches, but the greater part
tkes e two battalions seem to have been about one thousand
I ^ n f er orders issued by General Cobbe at 8 a.m.
by hand 7 006 Wag ° n had COme Up t0 the front and cable had to ^ laid