BRILLIANT STRATEGY OUTWITS OTTOMANS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17097, 21 February 1916, Page 7

BRILLIANT STRATEGY OUTWITS OTTOMANS.

WITHOUT HEAVY GUNS SIBERIAN BAYONETS CARRY ERZERUM FORTS. EXPERTS NERVOUS ABOUT YPRES SALIENT. BONAR LAW SAYS BRITAIN'S RESOURCES NOT YET FEELING STRAIN. CAMEROONS CONQUEST COMPLETED. FALL OF ERZERUM. LONDON, February 19.—Reports state that the garrison of Erzerum escaped, but in disorderly retreat, The Turkish • reinforcements are expected to be without heavy artillery which had been shipped to Trebissond. A Budapest message says that the Turks rallied west of Erzerum and that a big battle has commenced. WESTERN CAMPAIGN. LONDON, February .19. The British report artillery bombardments south of Ypres, and the Germans state that a British attempt to recapture positions was repulsed with heavy loss. In Artois an attack was stopped and in Upper Alsace a German attack, after gaining a temporary success, was repelled. ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA. PETROGRAD, February 19.—Enemy aeroplanes are more active in the'Riga and Dvinsk sectors. The Germans used gas near -Tacobstadt. It is reported that fighting is incessant oil the Bojan road and that the Russians are developing an offensive in Eastern Galicia. AN ITALIAN SUCCESS. ROME, February 19— Infantry encounters in the Sugana Valley were to the'advantage of the Italians. LORD DERBY'S SCHEME. LONDON, February 19.—Owing to the number of exemptions under the Derby scheme the appeals before the examining tribunals are being conducted in public in the hope of reducing the number. SUBMARINE WARFARE. , WASHINGTON, February 19.—The State Deportment of the United States has announced that merchant ships may carry guns and that American citizens are not to be stopped from travelling on the vessels. TREASURY BONDS SOLD. LONDON, February 19.—The United States Steel Corporation has taken up twenty r two million dollars' worth of Treasury bonds.