DISTURBED ASIA

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 167, 17 July 1920, Page 5

DISTURBED ASIA

ISOLATED TROOPS IN RUMAILA

RELIEF DIFFICULTIES

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(Router's Telegrams") (Received July 16, 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 15. Mr Churchill si atbd in the/House of Commons that the military operations for, the> relief"of a company of Indian infantry and other, detachments isolated in' Ruiriaila , were hampered- by the shortage of railway .■stock, •as sjx trains had' been captured or derailed, . The relief; detachments . wero .at E!tho ■;' fifteen miles fr,om • ■Eumaila.!' They had ,'feuff cred severe casualties. Railway: communication was still .interrupted, and the large district was in, a state :bf great disorder. The present'force was' unable. to cop 6 with the : disorders. A .considerable, force.was advancing' from Bagdad, and he had ; asked _ the ; Indian Government. ;-,, to j warn a further'force to be i-eady incase of emergency. There.,...was ho reason to suppose that if ..sufficient effort were made order-; could' ! hot- be thoroughly re-established.