IN MESOPOTAMIA.
OVER 5000 PRISONERS. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] LONDON, April 4. A Mesopotamia official message states that since the 31st of March, heavy n(in and violent gales have prevailed. Prisoners taken along the Euphrates river to the 2nd of April, number 5241 Turks,' including 208 officers and eighteen Germans.
ERZEROUM RECAPTURED. fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] & REUTER.] MOSCOW, April 4. The Armenians have recaptured Erze* rouni. A RMENIAN M ASS ACRES. fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. OABI.E ASSOCIATION] {Received, This Dav at 8.50. a.m.) ROME, April 5. Armenian refugees state the Turks massacred all the Armenians in Eraerrouni, totalling eight thousand. Many women died on the rails, being killed by passing trains. ,Tlie Bishop of Trebizond’s feet were heavily ironed and he was compelled to walk till he fell dead.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1918, Page 2
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