IN MESOPOTAMIA
FURTHER OUTBREAKS. ON CONSIDERABLE SCALE. (A. and N.Z. Cable). LONDON, August 18. The War Office states that furthleaonntba'e&ks haivie otoourred in MesopWtaoniai on % considea'aible scale, ipaa'tiou- - larly to the northeast and west of tßagdad'. Bamds af tiibesmian. out the railways -and telegraph frmr Bagdad to Kefri, '100 miles north of Bagdad. Part of the gaVriscn here is invested jund sevei-fsvl railway bridges have been bai<mt wnd comiuiuiicaitxons with the gmrrisQJM at Romaili and Feluga have been <siit. Tribes to the south of Bagdad are quiet.. The garrison at Kutali, .100 mile® from Bagdad!, are still holding ■out. The revolutuoinary movement • was af fo'St ipolitwal, ' but has become anarchic. The 1 former are alarmed at ttw turn) of event* and are tbitow&ig their influence on the side df pealoe. Reinforcement frtan India are on theilr waiy- to M^ptotainM. -
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Thames Star, Volume LVI, Issue 14309, 23 August 1920, Page 3
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