SPOIL AT ERZERUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, 21 February 1916, Page 5

SPOIL AT ERZERUM.

150 -EIGHT-INCH KRUPP GUNS, i A RESULT OF THE VICTORY.. ; NO TUI&S FOR USE IN BALKANS.' (Receded Feb. .21, 10.30 a.m.) ; PETROGRAD, Feb. 20.. | .The artillery taken at Erzerum in.eluded 158 Srinch Krupp guns. Germany's policy in Turkey has had Tin view the of the centre! of the Empire during the war, and ±o weaken it by despatching Turkish' treops to the furthest extremities arifli "beyond the froa&iers. The fall of Erze- : rum implies thai the Austro-Germans i mu«t rely exclusiively upon themselves , and-the Bulgarians in the "Balkans, the! Tuii-ks restricting themselves to "the tlefenee of Turkey.