TWO TURKISH CORPS ALMOST ANNIHILATED

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

TWO TURKISH CORPS ALMOST ANNIHILATED

MOVEMENT ACROSS MOUNTAINS MINUS SUPPLY CONVOY & FIELD ARTILLERY Petrograd, January 0; 'A communique states: ''Although' abundantly provided with supplies, the Ninth and Tenth Turkish Army Corps undertook the movement against San Kamvsh across mountains, snow-covered roads and steep ridges almost without supply convoys or field artillery. They relied chiefly on the sympathy and. liberal help of native Mussulmans whom their emissaries had previously apPt ° R Both corps were almost annihilated, and . the remainder of one of these taken prisoner with three divisional generals. TURKS ADOPTED GERMAN TACTICS MET WITH A 1 DEVASTATING' MACHINE-GUN WHIRLWIND.(Roc.- January 7, 8.80 p.m.) Petrograd, January 6. The Turks at Sari Kamish outnumbered the Russians by ten to one. The Turks adopted Gorman tactics and attacked on the front and flanks simultaneously. . They swarmed down a steep gully which would have daunted Waktdcep e in S snow, half naked, ragged, and frozen, they attacked the Russians, who reserved their fire until the was within four, hundred yards. There the Russians opened a devastating machine-gun whirlwind. The Russians then retired, drawing the Turks after them into the zone of the Russian artillery, and they with the reinforcements completed the enemy s destruction. '