THE TURKISH RETREAT' FROM KUT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 5

THE TURKISH RETREAT' FROM KUT

WILL GERMANY, ATTEMPT A COUNTER-STROKE?

HUN PRESTIGE AT STAKE

London, March 6. The rout of tho Sixth. Turkish Army, the remnants of which must have readied Bagdad, is a most significant event) iu view of tho profound political effect it will create throughout tho East. It is regarded as inconceivable that Germany will not attempt "a counter-stroke, not only to save tho Turks, hut the German regime in Turkey. It is recalled in this connection that German troops deft Constantinople just before tho recapture of Kut. It is helieved that a report that they were, going to the main Eastern front was designed as a cloak to their dispatch to Bagdad. Anyhow, developments aro eagerly awaited. Meanwhile, it is pointed out that the urgency and insistency of the needs of Germany's Allies must ho growing daily, and constitute an aspect of war which cannot be ovorlooked.— Router. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IN THE CAUCASUS ■' ' ■ * TUIIKS jmiVEN BACK. London, March 6. Wireless, per Admiralty Press.—A Bussian official report states: "In the Caucasus we aro pursuing the Turks, who are withdrawing from Bidjarsonne. Wp occupied the villacos of Husseinabad and Ohariak. Wβ attacked the summit of A~sadabad, in the direction of Hamadan. South-eastward of Ahzclako (?) we aro -pursuing the- Turks towards Dovlotabad.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable .A'ssu.-Bcutcr.