SOME LITTLE WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16758, 7 June 1920, Page 3

SOME LITTLE WAR.

IN SIBERIA AND ELSEWHERE. By Telegraph—Press Assn,—Copyright. LONDON, June 5. The War Office, in its weekly review of operations, states that in Siberia the Japanese are conducting a converging movement from Castries Bay and down the Amur River against the Russians entrenched north of Lake Kisi. Seaplanes based on the lake are reconnoitring the Russian position. In Mesopotamia, raiding activity on the Upper Euphrates has largely ceased as a result of the raiders’ losses, but raiders, on May 24, wrecked a goods train south of Omul, causing 13 casualties. In Syria, the French columns operating in the Tyre region against the Metwalis, who recently massacred 70 Christians, swept the country as far as the southern boundary of French territory. By an oversight a village in tho British zone was bombarded and occupied. The French commander has undertaken that this shall not recur. Westward of the sources of the Jordan a French column met with considerable opposition, and had not reached its objectives by May 23. Large numbeis of refugees have fled into the British Bone, and refuse to return. —Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn.