A PICTURESQUE CAMPAIGN.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13994, 26 January 1916, Page 5

A PICTURESQUE CAMPAIGN.

TURKS' THIRD ,ARMY DE-

MORALISED

RUSSIANS CLEARING THE

GROUND.

London, Jan. 24

"The "Daily Chronicles. Pctrograd correspondent says there are no railways, 16-inch guns or elaborate entrenchments- in Eastern Anatolia, but there is a snap of gallant adventure in the fighting in the mountains and valleys cf Armenia and Kurdistan.

The Turkish Third Army suffered a picturesque 'collapse while gathering forces at Melaskert to strike a blow at the Russian centre. The Russians, however, concentrated more rapidly and struck hard, sending the Turks in pell mcli flight over the snow-clad mountains. ■ The Russians hotly pursued tains. The Russians hotly pursued them to the base, which is strongly fortified and guards the approach to Erzeroum. The Turks' on the flanks were also demorolised and panic-stricken.

■It is expected that the Turks will seek reinforcements from Mesopotamia. Meanwhile the Russians, under the dashing General Barratoff, are clearing ground in Persia by seizing the fortified pass of Kencover and entering Sultanahad .; where they have stopped communication by the Indo-European telegraph between Persia and Turkey.

The German Consul fled with a band of irregulars he had organised.