SEVERE FIGHTING BETWEEN TURKS AND RUSSIANS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2359, 15 January 1915, Page 5

SEVERE FIGHTING BETWEEN TURKS AND RUSSIANS

REPORTED MASSACRES IN ARMENIA TURKISH EXPEDITION TO EGYPT Petrograd, January 13. Tlie Turks have assembled about a hundred thousand troops, mainly in command of German officers, at Karaurgan, checking the Russian' advance cn the threshold of the Ottoman territory. Official.—"There ha». been severe fighting at Karaurgan. The Russians took fifteen hundred prisoners, including eleven officers, belonging to the 92nd Infantry. THey destroyed a. battalion of the 52nd, the remnant of which iras made prisoners. We captured a hill in Turkish territory, and 6eized a depot for artillery shells and* cartridges." . , CRUISER BRESLAU FIRES ON TURKISH TROOPS(Rcc. January 14, 8 p.m.) Petrograd, January 14. A curious evidence of the Turkish Fleet's activity was the Breslau's bombardment of the positions of the Turkiisli troops near Khopa (on the Blnck Sea). The Russians thus occupied tho positions which the Turks had been forced by tlieir own guns to evacuate. Tho'Russains have destroyed several vessels at Rizeh, a Black Sea port east of Trebizond. THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK IN ARMENIA. • Lctrograd, Jamiarv 13. . links and Kurds have reached Maragha, in the Persian province of Azorbijan, south of tho Caucasus. . A massacre, of Armenians between Lakes Van and Noza is reported. ' Many Christians in the Awrbijan district, and Alashgerd. 70 miles north of Wk« * Hit vallq.v. Inivß died of hunger aijd gold. Fifty thousand rjutjets have 1 tlia OiuoMUl,

Enver Bey las had executed several officers at Erzerum for expressing 'did/ . respect to Germany. Turkish prisoners tearfully and- vehomently denounce the Germans for ruining Turkey. . ■ (Ree. January; 14, 6.25 p.m.) London, January 14. There is terrible desolation in Armenia. Wholesale slaughter continues, and fifty thousand homeless people are streaming through the valleys of the 1 Caucasus. The horrors of thoir march are indescribable. Many of the ohildren have been abandoned on the roads, and even adults are dying of cold and liun- . ger.—(•'Times" and Sydney "Sim" Ser-vices.) TURKISH ADVANCE GUARD IN PERSIA. London, January 18 Router's Petrograd correspondent states that a Turkish advance guard has occupied Tabriz, the capital of the Azerbijan, province of Persia, 40 mileßeast of Lako Urunna. (Rec. January 14, 10.50 p.m.) f-ondon, January 14, ./ Reuter's Petrograd correspondent states that it is believed that the Turks* . • object in invading the neutral territory of Persia is to get .at the vulnerable J Russian frontier, using Tabriz as a base. The Persians hope for Anglo-Rus-sian aid. Tabriz -is the emporium of an extensive transit trade, but the 1 opening . of the Russian railway between .the Black Sea and the Caspian, ancTßussian tariff legislation have injured the overland trade. Tne Anglo-Indian telegraph line passes here. — ENORMOUS TURKISH LOSSES 'AT OLTI. ' ■ v (Rec. January. 15, 1.5-a.m.) Petrograd, January 14. Official.—Reports of the rout of the Turkish Tearguard at Olti (about SO miles north-west of Sari Kampsh) show that there were -enormous Turkish , losses. At Karaurgan we captured convoys, stores, and a field hospital, with six hundred wounded Turks. OTTOMAN DESIGNS ON EGYPT ABANDONMENT OP EXPEDITION DENIED.: Constantinople, January 13. It is denied that the Turkish Egyptian expedition has been abandoned. Reuter's Cairo correspondent states that Turkish officers commanding ■ in Southern Syria do not show any desire to advance southwards. They are demanding that the_ authorities at Constantinople should send more trained soldiers. News ,of the Turkish defeat in the Caucasus has proved disheartening to the recruits mustering at Lebron. German officers are the chief impelling ' factor. . ' (Rec. January ,15, 1.5 a.m.) " , Cairo, January 14. 'Advices from Darfur show that German agents are intriguing with tha natives to fight against England. The agents are using' Slatin Pasha's de-, parture from Egypt as an argument in favour of the natives siding withh Germany. ■ '