MESOPOTAMIA
SITUATION MORE OMINOUS
VIOLENT JEHAD BEING
PREACHED
(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Bee. August 31, 7.15 p.m.) London, August 30. A .War Office communique states:—The situation in the Muntafik area, between tho Lower Tigris and tho Lower Euphrates, grows more ominous. A violent jehad is being preached. Tho situation around Samawa also causes anxiety. Movements of rebel bands have J>een observed, and renewed attacks are expected. Fifteen hundred attacked Hillnh on August 26, but were repulsed by heavy sheiifire. There has been a recrudescence of sabotage against the Bag-dad-Shergat railway. It is reported that Government officials have been molested eastward of Bagdad. Tho construction of blockhouses on the railway from, Bagdad to Baku has begun.—Reuter..
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 7
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114MESOPOTAMIA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 7
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