Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23
Ottoman Forces Were Routed
at Arabian and Sari
kamysh.
ENTIRE CORPS SURRENDERS
Siavs Make Prisoners of MusseIman
Commanders and Staffs-Suffer
Heavy Losses i'm Killed and
Wounded-AIIies Advance.

London. JAN 6.-Turkey apparently
has suffered one of the worst defeats
of the war
Petrograd reports that two of the
Ottoman army corps in the Caucasus
have been defeated utterly in the dis
trict of Sari Kamysh, Transcaucasia,
one of them surrendering, while the
remnants of the other are being pur-
sued
In addition, still another corps in
the vicinity of Arabian is reported to
be striving desperately to find an out
let through the snow filled passes of
the Armenian mountains to escape
from the oncoming Muscovites.
The Second Defeat.
That the Russians worked havoc
among the Turks at Sari Kamysh is
Indicated by the statement in the Off
cial report that the small bodies of
troops which succeeded in escaping
were vigorously pursued and de-
stroyed." The official report says:
The defeat which we inflicted on
the Ottoman army in the region of
Sari Kamysh is complete. The Ninth
Turkish Corps was completely annihi-
mander of the corps, Izkhan Pasha,
the commanders of the Seventeenth,
Twenty -eighth and Twenty-ninth di-
visions and two heutenants (these
chiefs with their stats, more than a
hundred officers and a great number
of soldiers).
The Turkish losses in killed and
wounded were enormous. We took
tions of war and revictualng con-
voys.''
Allies Advancing in West.
Except at the two extreme wings
on the Belgian coast and in Upper
Alsace, where the allies have gained
some ground, the fighting on the West
ern front has been done by sappers,
miners and artillery. From the coast
to the Swiss border, the troops either
have been engaged in Smelling the OPP
posite trenches or tryinglto sap and
mine them Only at isolated points
has the infantry been given its oppor-
tunity A few hundred yards have
been gained by the allies among the
dunes of Flanders, despite the unfav-
orable weather.
An Officers Statement.
A lieutenant general a staff officer
in Petrograd, today gave the Asso-
ciated Press the following status of
affairs in the Caucasus:
The exact number of Turkish ar
mics in the field is unknown, but we
are informed that they aggregate
three quarters of a million men, of
which number quarter of a million
remain between Tchatalja, Adriano-
pie and Constantinople, guarding
against unfavora BILE developments in
the Balkans.
about 300, 900 are operating against
us in the Caucasus. The remaining
troops, if modified at all, are scat
tered throughout the Turkish Empire,
guarding the Mediterranean points
against an English descent and it is
rumored a certain number are con-
centrating in Syria for an attack on
Egypt
Battle of Four Rivers Ends.
Petrograd, Jan. An the opinion
of experts the battle of the Four Riv-
ers, as the long series of engagements
on the banks of the Bzura, Rawa, Pill
lea and Nida is popularity known, may
be considered ended, for not only have
the Germans and Austrians failed to
advance on the Russian north and
south line, roughly, lying from the
Vistula to Warsaw. Kielce and Pine
zow, but everywhere they have been
repulsed with heavy losses and the
attacks now proceeding may be con-
strued as an effort to gain time pend
ing new operations.
Germans Take Borjimow.
In the east the Germans have cap
tured the important Russian position
at Borjimow, but elsewhere they have
been unable to make Roadway against
the Russians, who, as defenders of
well fortified positions, are aided by
the wet weather and muddy roads,
which hinder the German movements.
Took 22,57o Austrians
The Russian army under General
Radko Dimitrieff has captured 22,570
Austrians and As machine guns in the
last fortnight, according to an official
announcement given out here