GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 49, 28 February 1916, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

THE ERZEROUM TRIUMPH. I CONSTANTINOPLE KEPT IN IGNORANCE. GREAT DISTRESS AND DISCONTENT. LONDON, February 25. The Times correspondent at Bucharest savs visitors from Constantinople state that the population is completely i«moant of the Erzeroum capture. There is Turkish distress and discontent, women folding peace demonstrations. JAPAN'S SHARE IN THE VICTORY. MUNITIONS ASSIST THE RUSSIANS. LONDON, February 25. The Japanese Ambassador, Matsui, interviewed on his arrival at Marseilles, said Japan was following interestedly the development of the war. She had no doubt as to the issue. Japan's role since the capture of Tsingtau and the disappearance of from the Pacific has been confined to supplying Russia with munitions and food. Japanese faetones shared in the triumph-at Erzeroum.

TURKS EVACUATING TREBIZOND.

EUSSIA COMPLETELY CONTROLS

THE BLACK SEA

LONDON, February 25

The Turks are hastening the evacuation of Trebizond because 100,000 sol dieTS are nearly foodless. Russia's control of the Black. Sea appears to be absolute. ANOTHER RUSSIAN VICTORY LONDON, February 25. The Eussians have achieved an important new success on the Dneister, defeating Austrian forces between the DneisteT and the Puth, an effort to reconquer the lost positions failing. The Autrians have asked for reinforcements, and 22 Hungarian Landsturm battalions and a number of cavalry squadrons have been sent.

TURKISH ARMY CORPS SURROUNDED. LONDON, Feb. 25. The CoTriera Delia Sers says a Petrograd despatch announces that the Eussians surrounded an army corpf south of Muis.