STRATEGICAL POSITION OF THE CONQUERORS ARMIES CAN BE SUPPLIED BY SEA.

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 94, 20 April 1916, Page 7

STRATEGICAL POSITION OF THE CONQUERORS

ARMIES CAN BE SUPPLIED BY SEA.

PETROGKAD; 19th April. 'J.'rebizond proves to be the Grand Duke Nicholas's Easter present to his countrymen. The rapidity of the operations is a triumph for General Yudenitch, who is leading the army Trebizond is less fortified than was Erzerum, but a rugged mountain ridge, 8000 feet high,, protected it from the south. The German engineers had worked feverishly to conplete the defences, until the only possible . frontal attack was along the narrow coast line. Success was largely clue to the Russians advancing along the Chorok Valley, thus preventing the Third Turkish Army joining the defenders at Trebizond, while the Russians, pushing on towards Erzingan, intercepted the Turkish reinforcements. The long converging roads will enable the Russians to turn the whole front of Erzingan, where the main Turkish concentration is made. The possibility of revietualling the Russian armies by'sea, instead of through the difficult mountain defiles, will enormously lighten the task of the Russian commissariat. .Meanwhile the roads are being improved, and a railway is being constructed from Sarikamish to Erzerum.