The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-06
One Turkish Army Corps Has
Been Annihilated.
MOSlEM DEFEAT COMPLETE
Rumania Is Believed Likely to
Enter the War.
Newspaper Correspondence Are
Leaving for the Balkans.

Against two OF the three nations
she is fighting Russia apparently has
scored heavily. To the victory over
the Austrians last week is added, ac-
cording to the claims Of Petrograd.
the rout of two of the three Turkish
columns which invaded Russian Cau-
casuS.
Latest reports from the Russian
military authorities are that the de-
feat of the Turks was complete and
that one Turkish army corps was an
initiated. The campaign against tho
Germans has led to no definite results.
The Germans are handicapped by bad
weather in their advance towards
Warsaw but Berlin asserts that slow
progress is being made.
In the Austrian province of Buko-
wilma, the Russians, according to Pet
rograd dispatches, are meeting with
little resistance. Friendly relations
have been established between the
Russian soldie. and the frontier
guards of Rumania. which adjOins
Bukowina, and 1t is believed in Petro-
grad that Rumania is likely to enter
the war.
In the west the deadlock continues
France apparently is making progress
in the invasion Of A1sace but else
where there is little activity except for
sporadic encounters between cOmpar-
atively small numbers of men,.
London, Jan. s.-The pressure Of
the Russians on the east has been SO
far relieved as to preclude any neces-
sity of withdrawing Russian forces
from the Polish and Galicia1a frontier
for service I'm Sthe Caucasus Petro-
grad reports that the Turkish army
defeated at Ardahan (forty miles
Nj 1rvf 1vry nuk<< &sn1S Ae,
from the 4orces repoTted to shave been
crushed capturedsat SHri Kamysh,
lWn9stpdAy completely surrounded end
being 5larassed 5y r ssfAn cavasfy
and doomed to inevitable extermina-
tfOn." 1t was added that the Turks
determination but against hopeless
odds, as the roads along which they
sought to retreat were blocked by
deep SHOWS.
This is the defeat of Turkish army
corps which Grand Duke Nicholas re-
Joffre, commander in chief of the
French forces. This dispatch an
nounced also the capitulation OF the
entire Turkish Ninth artillery corps
at Sari Kamysh, and the fact that
such communication has been ex-
changed between the allied leaders in
the east and in the west is taken in
London to indicate that the Russian
report is neither exaggerated nor pre-
mature.
No Change in Poland.
While there has been virtually no
change to the west of Warsaw. 1t 10
the opinion of British observers of
events that the Russian general staff
is giving many indications of an in
tention to strike heavy blow in Hun
gary. With Bukowina occupied tho
| time is ripe for an invasion of Tran
sylvania,. an eastern province of Hun
gary bordering on Rumania. Nearly
100000 of the population of this
territory are of Rumanian stock.
According to contention of the
allies these people may be expected
| to seize the opportunity to throw off
the rule of Austria and unite with
Russia. Rumania has not yet aban-
doned her neutrality. but a warning
has gone out to her reservists to hold
themselves in readiness for service
and Developments soon may be ex-
| pected. The advance guard of Rus
slams along the Rumanian frontier has
been made up of men who speak the
| Rumanian language and have Ru-
manian sympathies. According to ad-
vices reaching London these soldiers
everywhere are being received with
| friendliness.
A dispatch from Paris stated that
developments of 1.-The highest impOr-
tance" are imminent in Rumania. A
dozen French and British newspaper
correspondents left Paris today for
Rumania by way Of Bulgaria.