CABLE NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13995, 27 January 1916, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

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on New, Year's Day. The Russians, advancing by night in a terrible.' blizzard, floundered in the snow-drifts and then

crawled on all fours and completely sur-

prised the Turks. The latter used rockets and searchlights, but these were useless in the thick snowstorm.

The snow-covered Russians, who were

invisible, fell on the enemy with the bayonet. Panic seized the Turks, who had not believed the attack possible. The Russians remorselessly pushed on^ and soon the whole Turkish army of

100 battalions was on the ran, Mounted

Cossacks fresh from Manchuria, swept the country, cutting down the fugitives and digging prisoners out of hiding

places in the villages. Hundreds of frozen groups huddled together for warmth, died as they slept.