TURKEY
HUGE TURKISH FORCES. London, August 3. A well-informed source announces that numerous desertions hav.j occurred among Turkish troops in the Caucasus. The deserters liare organised themselves into bauds working against the Turkish Army. ' Huge Turkish "forces arc concentrating at HaJep, either for use in Mesopotamia or aV C-ara, 25 circumstances warrant EFFORT TO RECAPTURE BAGI>AD. Rome, August 3. The Fecolo's Athens correspondent wires that the Greek Consul from Constantinople states that two Turkish divisions from the Dobrudja and Galicia have been sent to Mesopotamia well equipped with heavy artillery, Austrian and other troops following. General Falkenhayn intends to make a great effort to recapture Bagdad in September.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1917, Page 5
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