THE MIDDLE EAST.
THE PREVAILING TENSION. WILD RUMOURS. Press Association—Electric Telegraph-Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) DELHI, Saturday. Au example of the tension throughout. the Middle East is furnished by the wild rumour circulated in India that outbreaks occurred in Mosul and Baghdad. It is learned from Baghdad there was some effervescence during the Feast of Ramadan on May 39th, but nowhere were there any acts of violence. A punitive column from Telapar, which has returned to Mosul, reports all quiet. The Arabs made an abortive attack on a military post at Baiji, on the Baghdad-Mosul line, but were repulsed with heavy losses.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14148, 21 June 1920, Page 5
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103THE MIDDLE EAST. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14148, 21 June 1920, Page 5
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