RUSSIANS ROUT THE TURKS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 18, 21 January 1916, Page 5

RUSSIANS ROUT THE TURKS.

MONTENEGRO'S RESOLVE. WILL FICHT TO THE BITTER END. THE BUKOWINA BATTLEFRONT TROOPS HURRIED FROM MONASTIR BRITAIN'S CALL EOR RECRUITS The Director of Recruiting (Earl Derby) and his committee have decided on a great new recruiting campaign for married men as well as single. He declares that though he cannot say what the scheme will produce, it has already proved a complete answer to Germany, and shows that we have enough men to win the war. He also speaks very highly of the qnahty of the recruits, and states that the high order of intelligence among them has helped to solve the problem of finding . sufficient trained officers for the new army. The Montenegrin Ministry has announced that King Nicholas and his army will fight to the bitter end, and it is also officially stated that hostilities between the Austrians and ; . Montenegrins have been resumed. Once again the Russians have inflicted a severe drubbing on the Turks in the Caucasus, which recalls the defeat of the Ottoman forces at Sarykamish in the early* days of last year. According to the cable, a violent thrust was made along a front of nearly 70 miles, and the centre of the Turkish army dis- ! lodged from strong positions. The enemy's retreat toward Erzeroum degenerated at many points into a pauc-stricken ront. - n ■ •• ,-. --.>.r or D-wcaz* ;xf jjfginr »»r.J An Austrian communique states that & new battle has developed in Bukowina, and the "Daily Mail's" Salonika correspondent says that several Austro-German cavalry and infantry units have been withdrawn from Monastir and 1 turrjedly sent northwards. - Missionaries who have passed through the Suez Canal states that immensely powerful fortifications have been completed in the Canal zone. The Russian paper "Russkoe Slovo" expresses the opinion that the real objective of the German High Command is Russia's Asiatic frontier and the boundary of India.