THE PERSIAN FRONT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15319, 15 September 1920, Page 3

THE PERSIAN FRONT.

OPERATIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA. ; DELHI, Sept. 14. Advices from Teheran state that no fighting occurred on the front during the last ten days. 'Cos_acks are preparing fresh advances, and 'have re-occupied Imanuadehashin. A. British column from Persia advanced into Mesopotamia, and expects to meet a column from Bagdad near Sharaban on September 13, .thus restoring communication between, Persia aiid Mesopotamia. — A. and .N.Z.C.A. LONDON, Sept. 13. A War Office Mesopotamia communique reports that blockhouse construction is continuing m tlie face of comistont sniping, which is causing slight casualties. y The column which left Bagdad oh* September 6 advanced without opposition over fifty- miles to Abujiarah, when it met ,ancl foi*ced baok insurgents, estimated at 600, to the Morat Canal, where they', were put out of action .by cavalry. The insurgents retired towards Sharaban, where the column arrived 1 on the 10th, and exacted a fine of rifles from hostile inhabitants. One murderer of Buchanan was tried and executed. In the meantime three hundred insurgents attacked the post left at Abujiarah, but scattered on the tiniely appearance of an aeroplane which -bombed^and machinegunned' them. A determined insurgent, attack was made on the railway station at Samarra, but was repulsed. — Reuter.