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RUSSIA IN THE CAUCASUS. United Press Association. Petrograd, January 20. A communique reports: In the Caucasus a violent and unexpected Russian thrust dislodged the centre of the Turkish army from strong positions, along a front of a hundred versts, between Lake Tortunghal and the river Cltarjanson, northuard of M’alazghert, The retreat towards the fortified plan at Erzeroum degenerated at many points into a panic-stricken flight. Several units were almost annihilated, and hundreds of corpses strewed the road. We have occupied the town of Keprikey, fifty versts eastward of Erzeroum.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 39, 21 January 1916, Page 5
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90Persia Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 39, 21 January 1916, Page 5
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