IN MESOPOTAMIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 September 1918, Page 6

IN MESOPOTAMIA.

A SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION. LONDON August 30. General Marshall’s first despatch covers operations in Mesopotamia from October 1, 1917, to March 31, 1918. It gives detail of a successful expedition up the Euphsatcs against a Turkish concentration beyond Hit, also of operations on the Diala River, ejecting the Turks from Khankin, and opening a road to Northern Persia.

The dispatch explains that care was taken not to’Vamp troops within the holy cities of Kerbela and Nedjef. Some irreconcilables at Nedjef, fired on troops exercising near the town, causing a few casualties, and General Marshall, ot desiring to injure a town Marshall, not desiring to injure a town modans, decided to punish two leading sheiks, responsible for the offence. The shieks, however fled, and they have been outlawed. Captain W. M. Marshall, political officer in Nedjef, was murdered on March 21., The British surroundcTL the town with military posts, joined by barbed wire until those implicated were given up.