MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 235, 1 October 1920, Page 5

MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN.

MANY SHEIKS SUBMIT. HARRYING THE REBELS. LONDON, September 30. A War Office communique states that on tho Lower Euphrates, Sanawa, 150 miles south-east of Bagdad, is quiet. Hostile concentrations were bombed during tho morning of September 27. Tlie reconstruction of the railway west of Ur is making good progress. British artillery bombarded an Arab encampment near Mussaiyib, on the Middle Euphrates. 40 miles south of Bagdad- £ The blockhouse system orWhe BagdadFnlujah railway has been completed. North-east of Bagdad further operations around Deltawa have been hindered by heavy rain, which has rendered the roadj temporarily impassable. Prior to our occupation of tiic town the insurgents flooded the .low country by breaking the Tahila canal. Accurate gunfire drove them from positions on the. canal, but owing to the inundations the movements of our troops are now confined to a causeway. The telegraph line between Bpkuba and Deltawa. which had been repaired, has been cut again. A number of sheiks have made formal submission to the Government, and a large quantity *>f Government arms and stores has been recovered.— (Rcuter.)