PERSIA.
A FIERCE FIGHT. RUSSIANS DEFEAT THE TURKS. " Received May 15, 9.35 p.m. 'Petrograd, May 15. Despatches from Kermanshah give details of a sixteen hours' sanguinary fight at the Kurdish village of Sariiiil, situated on a hill between two rugged mountain ranges, ten miles from Kirind. This the first engagement in Persia exclusively against Turkish regulars. Sarmil blocked the advance to Knrishirin, and fighting commenced at dawn. The Turks, who were defending the historic road to Mesopotamia, withstood the devastating Russian gunfire and successive onslaughts of infantry until midnight, and then fell back on Karichirin.
A British officer who is accompanying the Russians speaks in the highest terms of the Russians' valor.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1916, Page 5
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112PERSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1916, Page 5
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