THE WAR WITH TURKEY
REPORT FROM TEH ENEMY. (By Telegraph.—Per Press Association) AMSTERDAM, June 1". A Turkish communique says: The enemy at Fallahu removed their camp beyond the range of the guns. THE SITUATION EXCHANGED. TURKJSH REPORT EXPLAINED. T.ONON. June 17. Official.—The, situation in Mesopohamia remains unchanged. Our trenches have been advanced to within 2(XI yards of Sannaiyat. We occupied an advanced position on the south band. The Turkish artillery sank three barges. The latter incident is apparently the basis of an imaginative Turkish communique. LONDON, Juno IS. General Lake reports that the enemy on Friday night made an unsuccessful altempt to bomb our saps in front of RannaSyat. The Turkish official deseripition of an attempted English landing on the north batik of the Euphrates is either an imaeinarv or disforted version of our successful punitive expedition.
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West Coast Times, 20 June 1916, Page 3
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137THE WAR WITH TURKEY West Coast Times, 20 June 1916, Page 3
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