Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1920 — BRITISH PERILED IN EAST [ARTICLE]

BRITISH PERILED IN EAST

A- - - Garrison Reported Cut Off 95 Mile* From Bagdad. Paris, Aug. 13. —The situation In Mesopotamia continues serious, says a Havas dispatch from Beirut. British detachments on the Euphrates are falling back, adds the dispatch, and the garrison of Divanleh, situated on the right bank of the river about ninetyfive miles southeast of Bagdad, has been cut off.