Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-17 | Page 6 | Turks Claim Defeat of English Forces

TURKS CLAIM DEFEAT I OF ENGLISH FORCES I London, No . 17, 7:18 a. m. A dis- H patch from Constantinople via Am- t' Bterdam to Reuter's Telegram com- pany gives an official communication j issued by the Turkish war office. It H says. c "Yesterday we attacked the English f near Fao (on the coast of the prov- SI ince of Basra in the Persian gulf). S They lost about a thousand in dead. K "The revolutionary leader Abdur I Resak crossed the frontier with 300 B men to assist the Russians but was H dispersed by our troops and many of his followers were killed. M "A Russian standard was cap- H tured."