RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN IN ASIA MINOR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2753, 24 April 1916, Page 5

RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN IN ASIA MINOR

TURKS ADMIT THE FALL OP TREBIZOND By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. April 23, 5.5 p.m.) Constantinople, April 21. .■A/Turkish communique admits the loss of .Trebizond. The Turks, it says, offered extraordinary resistance and defended every inch of the ground. There were repeated attacks My numerically superior forces. We forced'the Russians to battle with_ bloody results on April 18, and then withdrew to a sector where the troops will have a new task to fulfil At Trebizond, previously to being evacuated, six old 15-centimetre guns were destroyed l . A DIPLOMAT'S REPORT' ' (Bee. April 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 22. In the "New York World," a diplomat recently from Constantinople states that half a million Turks' fled before the Russian advance, and refuged at Sivaz and Anzpfa, bringing with them destitution and disease. Many died of cold'' and starvation on the roadsides, where the Armenians were driven. The Governor of Angora, notified Constantinople _ that he was urable to send further grain. The news caused a sensation in the capital, as Angora was the only source of supply, since Rumania was not exporting. The Turkish army now numbers 400,000, of which Field-Marshal Von der Goltz has a hundred thousand on tho Bagdad, front, where the Russians are threatening the communications. Two hundred thousand are under General .Von Sanders, concentrated on the Sivai-1 Habpoot line, to oounter the Russians. The Germans are daily sending vast quantities of artillery and munitions to Sivaz, /utilising the material intended for, the attack on Egypt. . ..