VIOLENT AND UNEXPECTED
RUSSIAN THRUST IN THE CAUCASUS
ENEMY IN FLIGHT NEAR ERZERUM PETROGRAD, 20th January. A Russian communique states: In the Caucasus a violent and unexpected Russian thrust dislodged the centre of the Turkish army from strong positions along a front of about sixty-five miles, between Lake Tortunghal and the River Charjanson, northward of Alashgird. The retreat towards the fortified plain of Erzerum degenerated at many points into a panic-stricken Bight. Several units were ahnost annihilated, and hundred of corpses strewed the road. We-'.occupied tho town of Koorukeui, thirty-three miles east of Erzerum.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1916, Page 7
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94VIOLENT AND UNEXPECTED Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1916, Page 7
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