MESOPOTAMIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 302, 15 September 1920, Page 7

MESOPOTAMIA

BLOCKHOUSE CONSTRUCTION IN FACE

OF SNIPING

LARGE BODY OP INSURGENTS PUT OUT OF ACTION J

By Telegraph-Press AeEodaMon-CoDyrieht (lice. September 15, 0.10 a.m.) London, September 13. A War Offico Mesopotamia communique reportsßlockhouse construction is continuing in fnco of consistent sniping,, which is causing slight casualties. The' column which loft Bagdad on September G advanced without opposition over fifty miles to Abujisrah, when it met and forced back insurgent.?, estimnted.nt six hundred, to the Iforat canal, where they were nut out of action by cavalry. Th'o, insurgents retired towards Sharaban, > where the colimin arrived oil September; 10, and oxacted a fine of rifles from tlio, hostile inhabitants. One of the murderers of Captain Buchanan was tried and. executed. Meantime three hundred in-, fiurgonts attacked a post left at Abnjis-, .vnli, hut scattered on the timely appearance of an aeroplane, which bombed and • machine-gunned them. A determined: insurgent attack was made on the rail-' wav station at Samarra on September 11, but was repulsed—Renter. RESTORING COMMUNICATION WITH PERSIA. , v . (Rec. September 15, 1.15 a.m.) j Delhi, September 11 ' Advices from Teheran etate that no fighting has occurred on the right front dut'ing i tlio last ten days. Cossacks are ; preparing fresh advances, and have re-'; occupied Imanzade Hashim. A British column from Persia advanced into Mesopotamia, and expecis to meet a column from Bagdad near Sharaban on September 13, thus _ restoring communication between Persia and Mesopotamia—AmN.Z. Cable Assn.