CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA.
RELIEVING THE GARRISONS. LONDON, October 8. A War Office communique states that our relief column moving on Samawa, on the Lower Euphrates, reached Darraji station, 28 miles from the town. Reconnoitring aeroplanes observed "all well" signals from the garrison besieged at Kufa, on the Euphrates, between Samawa and Hillap, but Arabs are destroying the Kufa-Nejef railway line. The rearguard of the column marching ! towards Hillah, from Bagdad, was . attacked by insurgents, whom an , armoured train dispersed. A communique on the operations i.i Mesopotamia reports the submission of large numbers of tribes in the Middle and Upper Euphrates districts. — (Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 242, 9 October 1920, Page 7
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