SIEGE OF RUMALIA
GARRISON'S GALLANT DEFENCE
ARABS FLEE ON APPROACH OF RELIEF COLUMN (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Simla, August 11. Details are available from Bagdad of the siego of Rumaila, which was recently relieved by a strong column. The garrison of Rumaila, which consisted of seven platoons of the lHth Mahrattas and the 99th Infantry, and two hundred British civilians who were working oh the railway, held out for three weeks. Rations and ammunition were dropped by aircraft into a serai which they had fortified. Tho garrison further provided for themselves by occasional sorties into the bazaars, made possiblo by the aeroplanes bombing tho outskirts of tho town and distracting the attention of the investing army while the garrison rushed the bazaars. A regiment of Sikhs made a' bold attempt to relievo the garrison, but tho Arabs succeeded in cutting off the water from a canal, upon which the regiment depended for its water supply, and: the force had to retire, suffering heavy casualties. The Arabs finally fled on the approaching of a strong column from Bagdad.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 274, 13 August 1920, Page 7
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178SIEGE OF RUMALIA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 274, 13 August 1920, Page 7
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