Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-07
Disaster Attends Attempt
90 Invade Russia From
the Sultan's Frontier
DEFEATED ARMY is
FACING ANNIHILATION
Victory Relieves Pressure
That Was Hurting Czar
in Poland Fighting

London, Jan 6.-The crushing blow
the Russians appear to have dealt the
Turks in the Caucasus, and the fur
ther advance Of the French in Alsace
on the road to Muelhausen, continue
to hold the foreground in the war
news today in the absence of any 9TH
er important developments east or
west.
It is felt in England that the re-
ported rout of the Turkish invaders
of the Caucasus, with the defeat OF
their plan to seize the Russian for
tress at Kars, gives the Ottoman
forces such q setback that the much
discussed invasion Of Egypt Is now
virtually out Of the question; at the
same time the pressure on the Rus
SLAMS from the east has been so far
relieved as to preclude any necessity
Of withdrawing Russian forces from
the Polish and Galician fronts for SER
vice in the Caucasus.
Petrograd reports that the Turkish
army defeated at Ardahan forty
miles northwest of Kars) which is dis
tinct from the forces reported to nave
been crushed or captured at Sari KAN
ysh. was today completely surround
ed and being harassed by Russian
cavalry and doomed to inevitable ex-
termination" It was added that the
Turks were fighting with great brav-
ery and determination but against
hopeless odds, as the roads along
which they sought to retreat were
blocked nv deep SHOWS.
Section Of Trenches Taken.
A German trench nearly half mile
long in the Argonne region was blown
up by the allies, according to todays
official statement from Paris. Inc
French then made an infantry attack
and captured half of the trench. Dur
ing this charge a grandson OF the
Italian patriot Garbaldi was killed. The
recent death in action of another
grandson was said In Rome to have re-
awakened the war spirit in Italy.
Aside from the fighting in the Ar
gonne, activity is limited chiefly to
IJpper Alsace, where the Germans
seem to have checked the French ad-
vance. The only claim made in the
French statement is that the ground
won has been held. The loss of one
nosjtion to the Germans is admitted.
The Berlin war Office states that the
French are bombarding towns to the
rear of the German lines and "seem in
different to the killing of their own
countrymen and to the destruction OF
French homes The capture of sew
eral trenches from the allies is report
ed.
Fighting continues along the main
line west of Warsaw but dispatches
from Petrograd and Berlin agree that
there have been no important develop
ments recently.
German Patrol Routed.
Berlin, Jan. Cone of the German
cavalyrmen who were with the son of
DR.. Won Bethman-Hollweg, the chancel-
lor of the empire, when the young man
was killed on patrol duty in Poland,
has given description Of the lieuten-
ants death.
Lieutenant Won Bethman- Hollweg
and ten cavalrymen on night patrol I
we're riding through little forest, the
soldier relates, when suddenly de-
taciiment of Russian Cossacks opened
a heavy fire. The lieutenant was shot
In the head and through the abdomen.
Two of the cavalrymen held him on
his horse while the German party gal
loped out of range. Only then was it
found that the officer already was dead.
The cavalryman then expresses the
sorrow of the men of his squadron. He
describes Lieutenant Won Bethman-
as a brave, capable officer, al
ways cool and careful while on patrol
work
f.