GERMAN PAPERS SAY SHE WAS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2353, 8 January 1915, Page 5

GERMAN PAPERS SAY SHE WAS

RUSSIANS DEFEAT THE TURKS TWO ARMY CORPS CUT UP

A speech by Lord Kitchener m the House of Lords, whioh' is reported to-day, interestingly reviews the recent progress of the war. After referring in optimistio strain ,to the situation in the two niain theatres, and in-other places 'where the Allies are engaged, Lord Kitchener'declared that the Allies are daily increasing their resources of men and material to enable them to prosecute the war triumphantly.' The magnitude. of the British preparations is indicated in the' War Minister's statement that 29,100 officers have been appointed since the war began. Late details of the Battle of Sarikamysk, ia.Trans-Oaucasia, show that the Turks suffered an even greater disaster than was at first reported. Instead of one Army Corps' being capturedj two were practically annihilated, and this ap- ( pears to have Keen'the whole force, engaged, though other Turkish Araues-are operating further noTth. The Germans are now claiming that the. battleship Formidable, recently sunk in the Channel, was torpedoed by one of their submarines, but the story appears to be open' to doubt. .Few developments are reported in the Western Theatre, but it is' stated that the Germans are concentrating heavy, reinforcements at CourtraJ, east of Ypres, and contemplate an attempt to pierce the Allied line north-west of the latter place, The Russians have oaptured a; village in the Mlawa region, close to the East Prussian frontier. They report'also that their offensive oonitinues in Bukowina,/at the eastern extremity of Galicia, but no further news is given of the reported invasion of Hungary. Discussing the situation in. Poland, the London "Times" declares that Warsaw is safe and likely to remain so. Messages from London state ■that the arrest of Cardinal Mercier by the Germans is causing indignation all-parts of- the world/ and an Amsterdam report mentions that the arrest was . described in; the German Reichstag as an unpardonable 'blunder. Details concerning the Balkans suggest that the situation there, is generally ■ satisfactory to the Entente Powers.