Russia
JHE CAUCASUS CAMPAIGN. TURKS ON THE RUN. RUSSIAN SUCCESS ON NEW
YEAR'S DAY.
FIGHTING IN A SNOWSTORM
[United Press Absorption.] (Received 8.20 a.m.) Potr/Jgrad, January 25
j The 1 first Turkish positions in the Caucasus were stormed on the Russian Now Year's Day, January 14th. The Russians, advancing in the night during a terrible blizzard, floundered in the snowdrift then crawled on all fours, and completely surprised the Turks. The latter used rockets and searchlights, but these were useless in the thick snowstorm, and the snowcovered Russians being invisible, fell on the enemy with the bayonet. Panic seized the Turks, who did not believe an attack was possible. The Russians remorselessly pushed on, and soon the iwhole Turk tiations were .run. ' •. Mounted Cossacks, frcsXir(»m ivjanchuria, swept the the fugitives aiidfxligging prisoners'out of hiding in tlie villages, passing by hundreds of frozen groups, where they had huddled for warmth and they "slept. '' §W\ :i
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 43, 26 January 1916, Page 5
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154Russia Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 43, 26 January 1916, Page 5
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