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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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he becund line furtisand the principal defeiuive putsition, waH decided onFebruary 16 after uhort attacks. ThebO fortifications,which Were full of Turkish dead, reiuaim-d in ourpobsebbion. During the assault on the fortress severul Turkishtegimentti were annihilated or made priboners with allthnir otHcers. On the line of forts alone we took 197pifi-rM of artillery of various eiilibres in ^ood condition. The t^jioat Hu8Hian advaiico west of P^fzerurncame to an end only with the exliaiiHtion oftlte piirHiiers, In th Hoiith, MiiHh, aw wt» JiaveKeen, liad ah-eady Itilhui on Februaiy 19, andon Marcli 1 thu KtihHiaiiH weitt at Ktirnak, onlyseven uule« noi-th-ea8t of BitliM. On tlie fol-lowing day IJitliH itself was taken, the mountainpass opening up tlie whole of the Tigiittvalley, and otily 100 inile« from the Tiirkiwhrail-head at Nisihin, thus coming into thepoHseHsion of the \ ictorious invaders. Hereagain the Russians found themselves con-fronted with terrihie obstacles owing to con-
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COSSAGKS AT A MEAL. In the defence works of the central fortress we tookanother 126 pieces of artillery. In the fortified regionof Erzsrura we took a large number of depots of variouskinds, wliioh have already been mentioned by theHeadquarter Staff. The exact mimher of Turkishprisoners is 235 officers and 12,753 men. It is possible to estimate the force of the blow whichW3 dealt the Turkish Army, whose demoralized remnantsare now withdrawing in disorder towards the west, ifonly by the fact that some Army Corps of three divisionsnow only number from 3,000 to 5,000 men with a fewgu:is. All the remainder have either fallen into ourhands or perished in the fighting, or from the cold. According to latest information received, Turkishofficer and soldier prisoners, who were captured in thefortified 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 Erzeru

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