SIEGE OF TROOPS.
BRITISH RELIEF SENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 16, 8.30 p.m. London, July 15. In the House of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill (Secretary for War) stated that the military operations for the relief of a company of Indian infantry and. other detachments Isolated in .Rumaila were hampered by shortage of railway stock, as six train/; were captured or derailed. The relief detachments were at Etho, fifteen miles from Rumaila. They had suffered severe casualties. The raihvay communication was still interrupted, and a large district was in a state of great disorder, and the present force was unable to cope with the disorder. A considerable force was advancing from Bagdad, and he had asked the Indian Government to warn a further force to be ready in case of emergency. There was no reason to suppose that if sufficient effort wps made order could not be i thoroughly re-established. —Reuter Service. '
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1920, Page 5
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