TURKEY'S WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1920, Page 5

TURKEY'S WAR.

THE BRITISH IN ACTION. REPULSE VIOLENT ATTACKS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Received June 27, 5.5 p.m. _ Athens, June 26. British troops on the Ismid front repulsed violent Turkish attacks eastward of Bagshedjik and Geiveli, capturing six hundred. The fighting continues. The British discovered a plot to attack the British rear. They disarmed all Turks in the neighborhood of Ismid, and the Britisli. fleet bombarded the Turkish lines and inflicted severe losses —Aus.-N.Z. Cable'Assn. GREEKS' SPLENDID SUCCESS. A TURKISH CORPS ROUTED. - Received June 27, 5.5 p.m. London, June 26. The Greek Legation learns that the Greek army surrounded and annihilated a Turkish army corps eastward of Smyrna. Eisht thousand prisoners were taken, and guns and booty were captured. Greek cavalry cut off retreat.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.' FURTHER GREEK SUCCESS. ENEMY RETREATJN DISORDER. " Received June 27, 11.5 p.m. London, June 26. A Creek communique states that troops from Smyrna captured Soma, the enemy retreating in disorder. The Greeks had 130 killed and wounded.— Aus.'N.Z. Cable Assn. PCLICY OF FRANCE. j Received June 27. 11,50 p.m. Paris, June 26. M. Millerand, speaking in the Chamber, said the present military opera- 1 tions against the Turks provided merely I a f oreed answer to the attacks against tl.a Allies. France's participation was on a strictly limited scale. "Our Eastern policy is not one of cannon shots. We stay in Syria—(Cheers)—in ! order to pursue the policy defined by 1 the League of Nations," he added.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. OPERATIONS REVIEWED. j Received June 26, 5.5 p.m. London, June 24. The official weekly military review states that the Nationalist forces hare reached the Lapsahi, on the Dardanelles. On the upper Euphrates we have withdrawn to Anah, which is now the most advanced post. Official advices from Smyrna state that the Greeks surrounded a Turkish Army Corps in Philadelphia, capturing 8000, with guns and other bootyUnited Service. i