Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
OTTOMAN ARMIES
CHECKING RUSS
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official statement claims that the CAM
patgn in the Caucasus is developing
favorable to the Russians, who have
taken strong Turkish positions with
comparatively slight losses, while the
Turks have suffered heavily. Good
progress also is being made in the
Russian campaign in Persia, Petro-
grad declares.
Important Operation
Importance is attached to these op-
erations because, although apparently
isolated, they are held by many mill
tary observers as to be taken into con-
sideration in connection with the Brit
ish campaign in Mesopotamia, all
three movements converging upon the
easternmost parts of the Ottoman en-
pire and throwing a line across the
path of any Turkish advance farther
into the Orient.
Little new light has been thrown
upon happenings in Greece, whence
reports of strongly aggressive move
ments on the part of the entente pow
ers came through German sources yes
terday. A London dispatch late last
night, however. conveyed n statement
by the British foreign office that ii had
no news confirmatory of the German
reports and that they are believed to
be unfounded.
Montenegro Still There
Montenegro may not have played
her final part in the world war, ac-
cording to an official announcement in
Paris to-day. This states that news
of her surrender may have been pre-
mature, as it has been learned from
another source that the Montenegrin
negotiations with Austria have been
broken off. the conditions imposed by
the Austrian authorities being such as
Montenegro could not accept.
The source of the information is not
given in the Paris statement, which
adds that King Nicholas and the royal
family of Montenegro, together with
the diplomatic corps, are about to
proceed TO Italy.
Military operations along the vari-
Gus fronts in the European theater of
war have been relatively unimportant
since the cessation of the fighting in
Montenegro and the halt of the Rus
sian offensive in Eastern Galicia and
on the Bessarabian frontier. Paris re-
ports quiet on the Franco Belgian
front and the only mention of activity
along the eastern front contained in
the current statement from Berlin is
that of a German air squadron which
attacked Russian storage depots and
other military establishments at Tar
nopol, Galicia.
Kaiser at Front
Emperor William, who has recov-
cred from his recent indisposition, ac-
cording to an official announcement
from Berlin last Sunday, which added
that he had returned to the front, was
in the former Serbian capital, Nish,
yesterday, Berlin dispatch states, and
met King Ferdinand of Bulgaria there,
the monarchs exchanging Fluctuations
and bestowing military honorS upon
each other.
1t is not stated whether the emperor
proceeded toward the Saloniki front,
where the Teutonic allies are reported
to have assembled a great army for
the purpose of inaugurating move
ment against the entente forces there.
German casualties as published in
the official lists to date total 1885, 5,76S,
the killed aggregating 5S8,9S6. it was
announced in the British house of
commons to-day.
To-day's German official statement
announces that a hostile air squadron
dropped bombs on Metz, causing ma
terial damage, but no casualties, so far
as reported.