BRITISH LANCERS CHARGE THE TURKS
TERROR-STRIKEN ENEMY IN MESOPOTAMIA. By Telegraph—P .'ess Association-Copyright (llcc. June 29. 7.10 p.m.) London, June 'JB. A British cavalry ollicer in Mesopotamia. dc&cribing the recent operations | which ended in the defeat of the Turks j who wero attacking Sbaiba. Kurna, and Ah whs last April, says: "After a three i days' battle, nvjrked by a series of mag- j r.ilicent cavalry charges ,md heroic: advances by the Dorscts and Xorfolks, j aided by native infantry, the Turk.-:! were routed. The pursuit resulted in i many prisoners and much booty. I "A squadron of cavalry chaired fl j trench twelve hundred yards from camp, i Wo thoudht it. eontaino-1 thirty or forty t'llfks, 'hilt Ihaf* w* Hvsf l\v« HuhoJi'M. Lwiw can i«w tfutir lives, .We amek ftityj
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2501, 30 June 1915, Page 7
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