IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13665, 6 September 1916, Page 3

IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

ALLIES IN PERSIA, COLLAPSE OF GERMAN INTRIGUE. ("Tlie Times" Service.) LONDON, September -I. The formation of n pro-Ally Cabinet at Toll era n coincides with the success in South Persia, where order has been restored and the pro-German bands punished. RUSSIANS IN THE CAUCASUS. ASSISTANCE OF BRITISH. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, September i. A Russian eommnnic|iie. says: Our Caucasus detachments have advanced southward of the rivp,r Ellen. Tlip otVcnsive at Ognot continues. British armoured motor cars had a fiprcp engagement with' Kurds westward of Lake Van.