TURKS IN ARMENIA STRONGLY REINFORCED.
DESPERATE RESISTANCE TO RUSSIAN ADVANCE. RUSSIANS CAPTURE HILLS SOUTH .OF TREBIZOND. London, April 26. The latest reports from Armenia show that the ■ Turks are endeavouring to concentrate between Trebizond and Erzeroum. The Russians captured the valleys and mountains north of Baiburt, 60 miles south and east of Trebizond, after a series of splendid assaults. Tre operations were oil the most difficult nature owing to the lack of roads over the snow-covered hills compelling the guns to be transported by hand. The Turks have been strongly reinforced, and arc- desperately resisting the advance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16215, 28 April 1916, Page 5
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97TURKS IN ARMENIA STRONGLY REINFORCED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16215, 28 April 1916, Page 5
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