TURKISH OFFENSIVE
IN ASIA MINOR THEATRE
ENEMY REPELLED BY RUSSIANS.
(Received September 2, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Ist September. A Russian communique states: — The Turks resumed the offensive.westward of Gumish Khaneli and Erzinjan, but were everywhere repelled. Three Turkish regiments broke through | our Tukestan* regiment. The gallant Turkestans immediately made a counterattack with the bayonet, and reoccupied the whole position, and drove the Turks westward with severe losses.. We captured Tchortuk, northward of the Euphrates.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 55, 2 September 1916, Page 6
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