IN MESOPOTAMIA
TURKISH FABRICATIONS. COMMUNIQUES CONSISTENTLY FICTITIOUS. [By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright.] [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Sept. 30. Received Sept. 30, 11.5 pjn. General Maude, replying to the General Staff’s enquiry if there was any foundation for the various reports of British reverses appearing in Turkish communiques, says : ‘1 did not intend to contradict the Turkish communiques regularly. They are consistently fictitious. General Maude mentions the Turkish claim on Wednesday regarding the complete annihilation of one of our cavalry detachments on the Euphrates. “The actual facta are that three of our horses were wounded in a patrol brush."
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Southland Times, Issue 17777, 1 October 1917, Page 5
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