Muslim Attack on Australian Picnic Train: 1915 at Broken Hill

By Dean Weingarten

Opinion

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- One of the lesser known, but informative actions of the First World War, was an attack, by Muslims, on a picnic train of unarmed civilians in Australia. The attack killed four civilians. A quick response by police, soldiers and civilians killed the two attackers after they took up a defensive position on a nearby hilltop at Broken Hill, in New South Wales.

At the start of the First World War, the Ottoman Empire had not chosen sides. Blunders by the British Empire and internal plotting inside the Ottoman Empire dragged the Ottomans into the war on the side of Germany.

A day after declaring war on Germany, on 5 August 1914, the British confiscated two nearly completed Ottoman warships in British yards. The ships had been paid for by donations from Ottoman subjects. The Prime Minister of the Ottoman Empire, Sait Halim, was outmaneuvered by the Minister for War, Enver Pasha. Enver was able to engineer an attack on Russian naval forces in the Black Sea, on 29 October 1914. In …Read the Rest

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