MID-EAST WARFARE.
ARAB RISING IN MESOPOTAMIA
RUN AIL A PROVISIONED BY
PLANES.
FIGHTING ON LOWER EUPHRATES.
(Received July 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. July 16
A semi-official statement regarding the outbreak in Mesopotamia says that Rumaila (or Rumistha) is being provisioned by aeroplanes, and the inhabitants also got , supplies by means of raids. British. aeroplanes are bombing and machine-gunning hostile villages and tribal concentrations.—Reuter.
DELHI. July 17 Military operations on. the lower Euphrates continue. The brigade tinder General Coningham has concentrated at Diwanyah. Communications have been successfully restored between Bisra and Santawa by armored trains co-operating with defence vessels. A defence vessel recently bad an engagement with the Arabs above Samawa. —A. and N.Z.C.A.
TROUBLE IN PALESTINE,
SYRIAN FORCES ASSEMBLE AT DAMASCUS.
(Received Julv 18, 5.5 p.m.) CAIRO, July 16. * A message from Damascus dated July 12 states that French _ troops concentrating at Zahlee occupied the Maallakah and Rial: railway stations. Syrian forces gathered at Maajdelangar perpared to resist Bedouin chiefs assembled at Damascus, where there is a state of ferment. The situation is alarming.—Reuter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5536, 19 July 1920, Page 5
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