Fighting in Turkey.
BRITISH CAFTURE 600 PRISONERS. BRITISH 1 FtEET IN ACTION. GREEKS TAKE 8,000 TURKS. ARMY CORPS'ANNIHI. LATED. London, June 27. British troops on the Ismid front have repulsed violent Turkish attacks, capturing 600 Turks. Fighting continues. A plot to attack the British from the tear was discovered. All the Turks in the neigh, bourhood of Ismid' were disanafd.
The British fleet bomharded the Turkish lines and inflcted severe losses. The Greek legation in London learns that the Greek army surrounded and annihilated a Turkish army corps eastward of Smyrna, Eight thousand prisoners, and guns and booty were captured,, The Turkish retreat is cut off by the Greek cavalry.
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Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 20, Issue 27, 3 July 1920, Page 10
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