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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 February 1916, Page 3

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London, Fob. 18. Though Hie tidings ol the tall ul Erzeroiwu was received without fiagtiying in Entente countries, there was an undercurrent or elevation. The victory is regarded as the greatest triumph tho Allies have secured lor twelve .rtTouths. Tho newspapers oi France, Russia and Italy considi r th victory means the collapse of tho grandoiso Geriiiano-Turlush schemes eastHard, especially regarding tho Euphrates and the Suez Canal.

Latest lniHisagt's ii'uui i. J otiogrnti attribute tiiu victory to the Grand Duke .Nicholas's masterly strategy and General i'udenitch's brilliant lighting powers, which crown Yudeniteh's earlier (leioat of the TurUs at Ardahan, where he frustrated Envoi- Pastor's wild tlaeth to invade the Trans-Caucasus. After the Turkish centre was broken on the 17th January, the Hussions by a dashing pu.nsuib along the Hassankala road, threatened to rush the ur.peneftratahle position at Ooviiboyun, whereof tho forts wore (JCOOI'fc above sea level. The 'furies desperately attempted to check the onset by tT sally into the Pafjjn Plain, but were driven back to the forts. The failure of the sally convinoed Ihe Turks tliat the lluesians were pushing masses of men and guns from KassankaLa, hut as a matter of the fact the Grand Duke Nicholas's main attack was elsewhere. An independent .Russiancolumn operating southwards in the direction of Meiazghert out off the Turkish reinfroccunente and headed them toward Bitlis. This operation was also a blind. Tho real attack was revealed when the special column of Siberians seized the Dumalunagh ridges in the rear of Kiu-agu-bek and Tafta torts which lie northeastward of Erzeroutn.