The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
TURKS ARE WHIPPED
) sPEYR0GRAD REPORTS ENORMOUS
In CAUCASUS

k&a VhoSAOSS
.AUsTRlANs ON new LINE|
Military Experts Look Towards Wis
tula for Big Battle-Weather is
Proving Useful Ally to Russians
Vienna Reports Success -Petro-
IS grad Tells Of Advances.
Petrograd reports: Monday night
aur troops won a complete victory
over the Turks at Sarikamysh. We
have beaten two Turkish army corps
anu made the entire 9th Turkish
army corps, including its commander
and three division commanders, pris-
soners.
50 ..Sraall bodies of Turkish troops,
which succeeded in escaping, were
Vigorously pursued and destroyed.
'sWe continue pursuit Of the other
Gp2rcS OF the Iurk1Sn forces, WHICH
r0re-in full retreat
& London reports a Petrograd dis
patch saying: Accounts of the Turk
sish defeat at Sarikamysh say the
Turks displayed great bravery and
made frequently desperate bayonet
sorties. Their operations were con-
Quoted under tremendous difficulties.
They lacked proper equipment and
had no transport trains. Most of the
war trophies captured by the Rus
slams were Of German make.
'The Turkish force at Ardahan
also is threatened with disaster. The
enemy in his disorderly fight has
been almost surrounded by the Rus
slams, who hold the main roads
Petrograd reports: ''The- defeat
which we inflicted on the Ottoman
army in the region of Sarikamysh is
complete. The Ninth Turkish corps
was completely annihilated. We
made prisoner the commander Of the
corps, Isxhan Pasha, the commanders
OF the seventeenth, twenty-eighth
S and twenty-nipth divisions, and two
lieHtenants {these chiefs, with their
stags). More than 100 officers and a
great number of soldiers. The Turk
! ish losses in killed and wounded were
: enormous. We2tcok many cannon.
machine guns, munitions Of war and
reyietualing conveys.
ssA company of one of our glorious
! regiments captured the entire COM
mend of the Ninth corps.
stour victorious troops are pursu-
ing the rest Of the Tenth. corps, which
is trying tc escape.
During the taking Of Ar3ahan
one Of our Siberian cavalry regi-
1nents charged the enemy and cut to
pieces two companies Of Turkish in
fantry. a squadron of The same cav
! slry regiment captured the flag OF the
Eighth regimentsof infantry, belong
: ing in Constantinople.
tsThe Turks are retreating IN all
directions"
SO Berlin reports: "An austrian bull
letin reports that Austrian troops
have occupied an important line to
the south Of Gorlice, which is fav-
orable basis for further operations,
An Official report from Vienna says
Austria has had to Withstand very
Z strong attacks from the Russians on
these heights. The position is espec-
4 tally Important, because it forms a
natural point for the junction OF
Austrian troops in the Carpathians
with the main army.
1tAn official bulletin summarizing
the results of the fighting in the
northern theatre of war during
Christmas week says 1900 privates
and 81 officers were captured"
VieEna reports: ''The enemy's at
tacks to break through northwest Of
Gorlice again failed, at the cost OF
heavy Russian losses. The height
south OF Gorlice which was fercely
3 contested, was taken and an unus-
ualsy large hostile battalion was de-
z feated.
ga field offeer,r four subalterns
sand $50 troops were captured as well
as two machines guns. A hostile
aeroplane also was shot down
Petrograd rerorts: ''In Galicia no
essential notifications are to be not
ed. At Uzsok Pass the Austrians, IN
retreat, were attacked by our cav
: airy which fell upon them flank and
rear, after having made their way
by mountain paths obstructed by
:. snow-this Notwithstanding a violent
s snowstorm. In this attack we cap
tured about ten officers and more
than $50 soldiers 1ssS
Paris reports: Monday night our
troops took possession OF a quarry sit
uated at the crossing of the road
from Rouvrois to st. M'hiel and that
from Macy to st. Mihiel and also
some neighboring trenches. There is
no Other operation to report. The
weather continues to be very bad
with incessant rains.
London morning newspaper CORE
lay ,nnhasis on the Russian advance
in Sukewina, Austria's eastern prov
inee, where, it is said, only feeble
! resistance was encountered.
Bukowina is the borderland Of
Roumania and the correspondents
:. speak Of excellent feeling between
the Russian outposts and the 2ou-
rnanian frontier guards, Russia hay
ing assigned soldiers Of the Rouma-
MAN race to patrol duty.
According to the correspondents
s the feeling in favor Of Roumania en-
tering the war has been augmented
I by the Russian occupation Of Sucza-
VIA and Kimpolung, cities which are
full Of historic significance to the
Ro1maniaEs.
In North Poland, where Russia is
confronted with the most serious
task, the weather is proving a useful
silly. The Germans, according to their
accounts. are making only slow pro-
gress with their offensive operations.
Military men look for bigger events
between the lower Vistula and the
East Prussian frontier. The Rus
slams hold the greater part Of the in
teryening territory, and unless en-
Gagged when the river freezes, would
fss1 on the German flank south OF
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