THE DESERT RIDE OF THE COSSACKS
DARING HORSEMEN DECORATED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, June 13. Mr. Edmund Candler (the British war correspondent in Mesopotamia) reports that General Lake, at the King's order, invited the Cossack officers, who made tho adventurous ride -to Mesopotamia, to Basra, to bo decorated with Military Crosses. The Cossacks traversed passes' eight thousa-nd feet high, infested by hostile tribes. They rode light, with one pack horse to ten men. The last stage of j thirty miles was , over a parched desert.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2797, 15 June 1916, Page 5
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90THE DESERT RIDE OF THE COSSACKS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2797, 15 June 1916, Page 5
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