GREAT DISORDER
FIGHTING IN MESOPOTAMIA MILITARY OPERATIONS FOR RELIEF OF RUMAILA By TeloEraph-l'Rsa Association-Conyright (Rec. July 10, 8.30 p.m.) , • London,.July 15. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Secretary of State for War (Mr. Winston Churchill) elated that the military. operations for relief of the company of Indian infantry and other detachments isolated in liumaila, on tho ■Euphrates,-were hampered by shortage ot railway stock, as six trains had 'been captured or derailed. The relief detachments wore at Etho, fifteen miles from ltamaila, and they had suffered severe casualties. Railway communication was still interrupted. A. largo district was in a statu of great disorder, with which the present forco was unable to cope A considerable forte was advancing from Bagdad and he had asked the Indian Government to warn a further force to be ready in ease of emergency. There was-no reason to suppose that, if a sufficient- effort were made, order could lint be. thoroughly re-establishcd.-Reu-ter.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 251, 17 July 1920, Page 7
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156GREAT DISORDER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 251, 17 July 1920, Page 7
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