TURKISH REVERSES IN THE CAUCASUS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2355, 11 January 1915, Page 5

TURKISH REVERSES IN THE CAUCASUS

LOSS OF CORPS ARTItLERV CRUISER SHELLED AND DAMAGED . Petrograd, January 8.. A oommunique states: "The Russians at A'rdagan.captured numerous guns and made prisoners of many belonging to the army quartered at Constantinople. They buried 1500 dead. "The Russians also seized at Sara Kamysh the entire artillery belonging to the 9th Turkish Army Corps, with all its generals and 300 officers." ™ London, January 8. Petrograd advises that, excepting scattered bands of fugitives, no longer are there any; Turkish troops in Russian v torritory. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) . London, January. 8. Military circles in Berlin consider the situation of the Turks in the Caucasus favourable. Increasing numbers of Mohammedans are enlisting. (Rec. January 10, 8 p.m.) Petrograd, January 9. Official.—The Turks have resumed a vigorous offensive in the Karauteam region, apparently in order to_ relieve, the deplorable condition of the remnants of .the Tenth Army Corps which is retiring precipitately, from Sakakamysh,There is nothing to report elsewhere in the Caucasus, A CHAPTER OF NAVAL DISASTERS TWO TURKISH TRANSPORTS LOST. . Paris, January 8. Official.—A Turkish transport was mined and sunk at the entrance to the ' Bosphorus. A Russian cruiser and destroyer shelled the Turkish cruiser Medjidieh (3432 tons, 22.2 knots, six 4-7-inch primary armament), near Trebizond. The Medjidieh was. damaged, but a transport she was convoying has sunk. BLACK SEA PORT SHELLED. 4 (Rec. January 10, 8 p.m.) ] Amsterdam, January 9. ( 'An. official report from Constantinople states that the Russian Fleet bom- i barded Sinope (a Black Sea port in Asia Minor), damaging two houses and i sinking four barges. / 1 i THE CAUSE OF TURKEY'S RUIN i 1 ENVER PASHA, "THIS WRETCHED BRAINLESS PUPPET." « ■ i London, January 8. i A. Turkish'colonel told the "Bourse Gazette's" correspondent that Enver i Pasha had been the cause of Turkey's ruin. He added; "This wretched, brain- c less puppet of the Kaiser has brought Turkey to a position which is imperilling 1. the Ottoman Empire. There is no true Turkey; she is now only a German pro- b vince, which'the Germans will carry down in their, own ruin." \ c , . i r PRO-BRITISH LOYALTY IN THE PERSIAN GULP. , 0 Delhi, January B.' » In reply to letters announcing the outbreak of war with Turkey and tlio . British occupation of Basra (Bussorah, in the Persian Gulf), the Political . Agent in the Persian.Gulf has received most cordial expressions of loyalty and devotion to tile British cause from tho Sheiks and Bahrein, the Sheiks of. Kuwait the Sultan of Muskat, the Chief Kolir, and other chiefs. ' The news of the British success at Basra caused unqualified joy among the j Gulf Arabs generally.' " f, (Rec. January 11, 0.5 a.m.)- ' London, January 10. r Turkish attempts to proclaim a holy war in Bagdad have been unsuccessful. £ • /■ \ TURCO-GREEK RELATIONS GROWING STRAINED. '[ (Rec. January 10, 3 p.m.) t V London, January 9. n Repeated murders of Greeks in Afia Minor and the arrogance of the.Turks e thn Grpok Consuls are making the continiiß,ncß of good relations beS and &<;&*« R«vice».} t