FIGHTING IN MESOPOTAMIA.
FOOD BEACHES THE BESIEGED. •y Tttegtapn.—Preu Atsn.—Copyright. Beceived July 18, Si! p.m. London, July 16. A semi-official statement regarding the outbreak in Mesopotamia says Rumaila (or Bumestha) is being provisioned by aeroplane. We also got supplies by met** of raids into the town, which is )Mj* by tribesmen. Raids against the railway continue. British aeroplanes lit bombing and machine-gunning hostile villages and tribal concentration*. . Bwalrcd July ",5.5 pjn. I Delhi, July li. ißHtary operations on the lower Enphrates continue. A brigade, Gentral rv m i i£ , " tm i was concentrated in the DhmSwram, and communications wertsncceisfuHy restored between Basra and Satuwa, by armored trains co-op-erating with defence vessel*. A defence vessel recently had a sharp engagement; wtQl Ajpb* above Sanawa. There is cotoiderab'le effervescence in the Snauyali dfatriet.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1920, Page 5
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