Mesopotamia
AN OFFICIAL REPORT. Press Association—Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams Loudon, July 14. Official: Mesopotamia reports minor encounters, wherein we punished brigands. ■ Enemy artillery and air craft ineffectually bombarded our lines at Sunniyat. DISGRACEFUL CONDITIONS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, July 13. The Duke of Somerset, in the House of Lords, said that letters from officers in Mesopotamia disclosed a disgraceful state of affairs. He was informed that a thousand wounded were sent down in one boat in charge of one officer and one orderly. Thfeir wounds were undressed until they arrived at Bombay. FUTILE ATTACKS BY TURKS. Petrograd, July 13. Our offensive westward of the Erzerum meridian is successfully developing. The Turks at several points made futile counter-attacks.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 87, 15 July 1916, Page 5
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120Mesopotamia Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 87, 15 July 1916, Page 5
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