THE WORLD AT WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3508, 10 June 1920, Page 3

THE WORLD AT WAR.

WEEKLY REVIEW OF OPERA- ux TIONS. «■’ ■ LONDON, Juno 9.feJi The War Office, in its weekly re* view of operations, states: In Siberia, the Japanese are conducting a com verging movement from Castries Bay. and down the Amur river against Russians entrenched north of Lake Kissi. Seaplanes based on (he lake are reconnoitring the Russian position. In "Mesopotamia, raiding activity on the Epper Euphrates lias largely ceased as a result of (he raiders' losses, but raiders on May 24 wrecked a goods train South of Omni, causing thirteen casualties. In Syria. French columns operating in the 'Pyre region against the Metwalis, who recently massacred seventy Christians, have swept the country as fur as the southern boundary of French territory. By an oversight a village j,, (he British yone was bombarded ;n id occupied. The French commander h;| S umlei taken (Ift this shall not reW'Wvfd of The «onfees of the Jordan a F"onch column met consider.,l,l,. opposition and had not reached j) s objectives by May 2S. Large numbers of refugees have fled into the British zone and refused to return.