SECRET SUPPORT FROM PERSIA
FLIGHT OF PERSIANS TO SI'.SSI AN" TERRITORY. PETROGRAD, Jan. 22. '-"here is jio doubt that Persia is secretly '.supporting Turkey. The tions in north Persia are indescribable. Thousands are fleeing across the Russian frontier, and hundreds arre dying oi starvation on the road'.'
FAILURE iOFENVBE PASHA'S PLA^S.
LONDON, Jan. 20
A correspondent states" that it is considered in Petrograd that Enver Pasha's ambitious plans in-the have completely failed. The maximum foi-ce the enemy is now able to assemble in the Armenian theatre cannot exceed 80,000, and the sole coiiise open to the remaining Turks is to shut themselves "up in ETzerum,i'<ind there die.a- valiant death,, since it is impossible to expect help from any quarter^ FAMINE AT ERZERUM. LONDON, Jan. 21. The Turks at Erzerum are mutinying en account of the famine. Several scores-were hanged' at the di-. rection tof -.the, German, commandant.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 23 January 1915, Page 5
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