RUSSIA'S GREAT VICTORY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 735, 9 January 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA'S GREAT VICTORY.

OVER THE TUSKS

GERMAN GENERALS OUTMANOEUVRED BY RUSSIAN STAFF. Petrograd, Thursday. The Turks in the Caucasus fought bravely under German orders, but the Russian leaders outmanoeuvred the Germans, who planned the battle on their favourite text-book tactics and fell into a trap resembling that at Brcsiny at the end of November,

The German idea wag to rest one wing on the Erzeroum fortress, and awing the other flank- for the envelopment. The direction of the .turning : movement was long kept secret.

The German generals reduced the transport to a minimum, and swiftly advanceud two main bodies, one marching on Sarykamisb, while the other crossed the frontier at Artvine, rear the Black Sea coast, and occupied Ardagan, in Trans-Caucasia, with mountains in the rear. ■.' *■! The Russians made a timely discovery of the move on Ardagan, and posted a strong force against the left wing and" also between the wing and trie centre. The Turks losaes were appalling. The dead and wounded lie on the ground for miles in the narrow valleys, and the mountain roads &re dotted with frozen corpses, the ground being too hard for burial. The dead are being cremated in heaps. The/Russian pursuit was terribly arduous, and it was unreasonable to expect too much, even for seasoned troops. The prisoners were obliged to sleep with cattle for warmth. The prisoners include the Austrian staff and Izzst Pasha, ex-Minister for War.

RUSSIA'S NEXT MOVE.

TO BURST INTO TRANSYLVANIA. London, Thursday. The Daily Chronicle's Milan correspondent reports that Russians are prer paring to burst into Transylvania. Advices from Budapest state that consternation exists among political circles, and every nerve i'b being strained to prevent Hungary becomr iog an independent State.

TEN THOUSAND GERMANS,

HELPING THE TURKS,

London, Thursday,

A neutral from Constantinople reports that up to November ten thousand Germans had arrived directly or indirectly, to enter the Porte's service.

TURKS BRIBED BY GERMANY. REVOLUTION PREDICTED WHEN .DEFEATED. Paris, Thursday. Sherif Pasha, ex-Mi»isfcer for Education,, in an interview, stated that the Turks did noY.wjsh to Join Germany, but had no alternative because 'hey were he the mercyof Talaat Boy, Foreign Minister, .and nine other members of the Committee of Union and Progress, who last year had received Beveral million marks from Germany. ■ Sharif Pasha predicts a certain "revolution when Turkey realises the signiifiance of the Sarykamish defeat.

PAVING THE WAY

FOR TOE PINAL VICTORY. London, Thursday. General Joffre, in congratualting the Grand Duke Nicholas on his great victory in the Caucasus, said:-"By constant and uninterrupted efforts in all the theatres of the war the Allied armies are paving the way for final victories."

THE TURKISH DEBACLE. UNPUBLISHED IN GERMANY. Received this day, 12.45 a.m. . Amsterdam, Friday.,.