MESOPOTAMIA.
LAST SEASON'S OPERATIONS. London, August 30. General Marshall's first dispatch covers the operations in Mesopotamia from October 1, 1917 to March 31, 1.915. He details'the successful expedition up the Euphrates against the Turkish concentration beyond Hit, also the operations on the Diala River, ejecting the »urks from Khaikan, and opening a road to northern Persia- The dispatch explains the care taken not to camp troops within the Holy cities Kerbela and Nedjef. Some irreconcilables in Nodjef fired on troops exercising-near the town, causing a few | casualties. General Marshall, not desiring to injure a town full of sacred memories for the Mohammedans, decided to punish the two leading sheikhs responsible for the offence, but the sheikhs fled, and they have been outlawed. Captain W. M. Marshall, political officer iri Nedijef, was murdered on March 21. The British surrounded. the town with military posts, joined by barbed wire, until those implicated were given up.—Aus.-N.Z. Calble Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1918, Page 7
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