MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN.
GENERAL MARSHALL’S DESPATCH. MOHAMMEDAN HOLY PLACES RESPECTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable and Eeuter’s. LONDON, Aug. 30. General Marshall’s first despatch covers the operations in Mesopotamia from October Ist, 19i7. to hlaxcli Details are given of the successful expedition up tlijj Euphrates against the Turkish concentration beyond Hit, also the operations pn _tne £ - ala river, ejecting the tui'KS Klianikin. and the opening or tie read to Northern Persia. The despatch explains the earn taken not- to camp troops within tae holy cities of Kerbla and _M-Ue: Some irreconcilaljles in Medjef tired on the troops exercising near toe town, causing a few casualties. General Marshall, not desiring to injure a town fuR of sacred memories Kir Mohammedans, decided to punish the two leading sheikh® responsible for the offence, but- the sheikhs fled. They have been outlawed Captain W. 51. Marshall, politico 1 officer in Medjef. was murdered on March 21st. The British suvonr.eed the town with military and posts joined by barbed wire until those implicated! were given up.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4963, 2 September 1918, Page 5
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169MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN. Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4963, 2 September 1918, Page 5
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