STRONGER WESTERN DEFENCES NECESSARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 22 February 1916, Page 5

STRONGER WESTERN DEFENCES NECESSARY.

THE GRAND DUKE'S FIGHTING

GENERAL

A BRILLIANT SOLDIER

(Received Feb. 22, 10.30 a.m.; LONDON, Feb. 21. Erzerum is practically defenceless from the west, and if the Russians' intend to hold it in the event of Enver Pasha advancing, they must construct earthworks far into the western hills. General Yudenitch (the Grand Duke's right-hand man) is a man of tremendous force of character, and was made a general at the age of forty-three for brilliant work in the Japanese campaign. This general led the 9th Turkish Army into a "trap a year ago by the following ruse. He sent thirteen men belonging to a disaffected mountain tribe into th-e Turkish camp, where they professed to sell information as to the Russian, dispositions. The com-j Blander® of the 9th Turkish Army believed the story, and consequently found themselves surrounded and helpless.