TURKS DRIVEN FROM ARMENIA

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 27 July 1916, Page 5

TURKS DRIVEN FROM ARMENIA

S RUSSIAN CAPTURE OF i ERZINJAN. (Received 10.25) j LONDON, July 26 I A Russian official report says Erzin- | jan has been captured. The,Russians {•have now succeeded in driving the {Turks from Armenia. PROGRESS ON THE SOMME. I FRENCH TAKE MORE GROUND. ACTIVITY AROUND VERDUN. (Received 10.25) LONDON, July 26. j On the Somme the night -was calm. | In the course of fighting yesterday the were enabled to take an island of houses southwards of Estrees. We took 117 prisoners and brought back three more cannon, making six taken that day north of Soyecourt. On the right bank of the Meuse there is,great artillery activity. In of Fleury we dispersed, by fire, detachments ,pf -the • enemy north war d ■ of-

La Qbapelle apd; ;Stv : Finc.. .. ho.ri : -i ; - FORTIFYING HUNGARY. ' USING MANY. PRISONERS. .>:• • LONDON, nJuly 25. A correspondent ati Bucharest htates that the Hungarians . are '- fortifying yaripjip in,.the.Banat,v-the region between the,., Danube, 1 ,-vtho a\ Tiza,' the Manes, and the; Carpathians, in - hbiitlieastern Hungary, using 40,000 prisoners on railway and other works. MILITARY SERVICE ACTS.

NOT APPLICABLE OUTSIDE BRITAIN. (Received 9.40) LONDON, July 29. A Reuter message states that the non,-enforcement of the Military Service Acts against Britishers residing in the Colonies is due to the fact that they are not applicable to Ireland. POST WAR COMMERCE. COMMITTEE NOW SITTING. (Received 9.40) LONDON, July 26 The Post-. War Commerce Committee is sitting privately, collecting departmental information. BRAVE BRUSSELS. FINED FOR PATRIOTISM. # LONDON, July 26. The “Echo de Beige” states that the Germans have fined Brussels a million marks as the result of a patriotic demonstration on Fete day on the the 21st. PLANS COMPLETELY WRECKED. LAID BY AUSTRO-GERMANS. RUSSIANS MAKE PRODIGIOUS CAPTURESENEMY BEATEN AT LUTSK.

(Received 9.40) LONDON, Julp 26 Mr Washburn, writing from the south west Russian front on the 24th, stated that despite the rain and heavy roads, operations at Lutsk and Brody that commenced on the 21st resulted in advances everywhere. Operations south west of Lutsk are wrecking the carefully prepared Austro-Germau plans for attacking in that region. •* At Michailovka the Russians have forced the enemy hack eight miles and captured one hundred and fifty thousand prisoners and one hundred thousand shells. The Russians captured thirty thousand prisoners and forty guns in eight days.