FIGHTING IN MESOPOTAMIA.
ENCOUNTERS WITH INSURGENTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 13. A War Office Mesopotamia communique reports that blockhouse construction is continuing ill face of consistent sniping, which is causing slight casualties. The column which left Bagdad on the6th inst advanced without opposition over fifty miles to Abujisrah, when it met and forced back insurgents, estimated at six hundred, to the Morat canal, where they were put out of action by the cavalry. The insurgents retired towards Sharabau, where the column arrived on the 10th, and exacted a fine in rifles from the hostile inhabitants. One of the murderers of Mr. Buchanan (a British political officer) was tried and executed. In the meantime, three hundred insurgents attacked a post to the left of Abujisrah, but they were scattered by. the timely appearance of an aeroplane, which bombed- and machinegunned them. A determined insurgent attack was made on the railway station at Samarra on the 11th, but it was repulsed.—Reuter Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1920, Page 8
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