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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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fortified district of Erzerum and in the course of thepursuit, complain bitterly that th(nr Headquarter StafIwas concentrated in the hands of tJermans. The latterduring the assaidt on the foitress of Erzerum were thefirst to abandon the fortified positions, causing a panicand disorder among the already shaken Turkish troops. tinual snowstorms and severe frost at analtitude of nearly 5,000 feet. Bitlis had beeixan important Armenian centre, but there werefew of the oppressed race left to welcome theirliberators, the Turks and Kiu-ds, under DjevdetPasha, having massacred some 15,000 of themin the previous June.* With this success thewhole of the Van region passed into Russianhands, and the connexion between the Turksin Anatolia and their forces across the Persianfrontier and south of Lake Irmia was severed. What is more, wrote one correspondent, the Russians have completed another st*vgeof the difficult journey, whose ultimate goal» Vol. VIII.. p. 380. THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR. 259
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TURKISH STANDARDS CAPTURED AT ERZERUM. is Mesopotamia and a junction with theirBritish allies. A study of large-scale mapsand of the position of the contending forceswould, unhappily, have shown how far fromprobability or possibility was this sanguineforecast. The Rxossian right wing was not less energetic than the left, and here, as we have alreadyseen, they were assured of welcome supportfrom the Black Sea fleet. The lower Chorokvalley had now been cleared, and on March 4the Turkish troops, pressed westward by thecoastal force, suddenly found themselves takenin the rear by a new and formidable force of

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