ASIA MINOR.
TURKS OVERTHROWN. GREEK ADVANCE CONTINUED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Athens, July 23. A communique states: We repulsed a Turkish counter-attack, overthrowing the j enemy along the whole front. We are (pursuing the Turks, who aro retreating in | disorder eastwards and north-eastwards. Newspapers express the opinion that the • campaign is almost ended. Prince Nicholas I has entered Kutahia. London, July 24. ! The Smyrna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that Greek sources esti- ’ mate that the Kemalists lost 4000 killed ' and 10.000 wounded in the seven day’s’ battle at Eski-shehr, which extended 43 , mileG The Turks erected numerous forts i in all the surrounding mountains, of which : the Greeks had to carry twenty by direct assault with the bayonet. When the Kemalists retreated they took up a position thirty miles east of Eskishehr, vzhere the railway is flanked by mountains sometimes 4000 feet high. Here fighting is going on.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1921, Page 5
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149ASIA MINOR. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1921, Page 5
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