MESOPOTAMIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20052, 15 September 1920, Page 4

MESOPOTAMIA.

- L ”"* ♦ ■ i" THE BRITISH OPERATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Asibciation-iCopyrij . • Telegrams, ir-i. tt- LONDON, September 13 Ihe War Ofhie’s Mesopotamia cc inumque reports that blockhouse c struction is continuing i n the face persistent sniping, which is caus: slight casualties. The column wh . , Bagdad on September 6 advaiv without opposition over fifty miles Abujisrah, when it met and forced bi insurgents, estimated, at six hundr to Morat canal, Where they were j out of action liy cavejry. The ins , : etired v ‘ ar ds Sharaban, wh the column arrived on September and exacted _ a fine of rifles from hostile inhabitants. One of the mnrd er x °i Buc, l anan vas tried and e cuted. Meantime three hundred ins £ents attacked the post left at A' ilisrah, but scattered on the timely i pearance of an aeroplane,! which boi ed and machine-gunned them. A tennmed insurgent attack was made the railway station at Samara on S tember 11 but was repulsed. DELHI, September 14 A British column from Persia has vaucod into Mesopotamia and expects meet a column from Bagdad n ' Sharaban thus restoring communi tiou between Persia and Mesopolami