April 12, 1917 
LAND & WATER 
and guns that had been holding the Jebel Hamrin had 
much less distance to go. Some of them were actually 
on the high road within sight of Karatepe, and those on 
the further side of the Diala in front of Kazil-Robat 
could cross the river in the first day's march of their 
retreat and reach Karatepe upon the second. The 
Turkish screen or flankguard established in the Hamrin 
Hills retired in the night of March 30th-3ist. When the 
British detachment which had been held in front of the 
Hamrin Hills was free to go forward towards Kisie- 
Kobat and the Russians on their side free to come down 
south to the same town over the Piatak Pass, the whole 
body of the enemy had got clean away, and when the 
junction between the two Allied forces was effected it 
was only to discover that the Persian Army o f the Turks 
had completely escaped. 
This conclusion, though regrettable, is now seen to be 
inevitable, possessing as we do further knowledge upon the 
strength of the Allied forces available in this district. 
It was not possible with the number of men that could be 
spared away from the main Bagdad army to force 
the Hamrin positions, nor could the weak Russian force 
hope to caiTy the Piatak against the strong rearguard 
the Turks had left there. The enemy's operation was 
clearly conducted according to his own plan and carried 
out in detail as he had expected. H. Belloc 
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