SMALL WARS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1920, Page 5

SMALL WARS.

OPERATIONS IN SIBERIA. FRENCH FIGHTING IN SYRIA, By Telegraph,—Press Assn.—fopyftiht. Received June 6, 11.55 p.m. London, June 5. The War Office, in its weekly review of operations, states that in Siberia the Japanese are conducting a converging movement from Castries Bay and down the Amur river against the Russians entrenched north of Lake ICisi. Seaplanes based o'n the lake are reconnoitring the Russian position. In Mesopotamia, raiding activity on the Upper Euphrates has largely ceased as a result of the raiders' losses, but raiders, on May 24, wrecked a goods train south of Omul, causing thirteen casualties. In Syria, the French columns operating in the Tyne region against the Metwalis, who recently massacred seventy Christians, swept the country as far as the southern boundary of French territory. By an oversight a village in tha British zone was bombarded (ind occupied. ' French commander has undertaken that this shall not recur. Westward of the sources of the Jordan a French column met with considerable opposition, and had not reached its objectives by May 25 Large numbers oc refugees have fled into the British zone, and refuse to return.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.