TURKISH CLAIM DENIED.
QUESTION OF AN ARMISTICE A. »nd N.Z.—Router. LONDON, April 28.
The War Office states that a Turkish official report issued on April 19 stated that tho British requested that a two hours' armistice be arranged to give the British an opportunity to bury a large number of their dead. This statement gives the impression of heavy British losses, but the facts were that after stubborn fighting, the enemy losing heavily, an arrangement, not in the nature of an armistice, was made between a German officer and the British Red Cross for the collection of wounded, (he enemy having previously fired on oyr parties, causing mutual abandonment of the collection of wounded and dead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16837, 30 April 1918, Page 5
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