Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-20

Asia and Africa figure more Drom;-
nentiy than Europe in the current war
news The RussianH are following uu
with vigor their recent success in
turkish Armenia; Constantinople re-
ports reverses for the British in Meso
potamia, while London announces the
completion of the conquest OF the
l>amerun, the important German colony
In western equatorial Africa. The i'm.
nense forces masscd in the Europcaa
war areas are just now comparativcl I
Inactive.
The pursuit of tho Turks who A..
from ErZerum with the fall of til
fortress. is being continued by ti
Russians. The possibility OF sta,
by the Ottoman forces a short distan.
west of the city Is being considered l.
Petrograd. but no reports of such r.
sistancc by the defeated army hay,
been received
fhe Russians, meanwhile. are active
along the Black Sea- coast, and have
recently reported a landing on the
Armenian ltttoral, nfteen miles east OF
Trebizond. which city is considered one
or the next objectives of Russian land
forces by a march of about 100 miles
northwest from Erzerum
IsNTrRE pROTECToRATE
The completion OF the Kamerun con
quest by the Franco British forces
was effected with the capture OF Mora;
"a position In the northernmost section
OF the colony, the last held By ths
Germans. their southern forces having
recently retreated over tho border into
Spanish Guinea, where they wero In
torncd. The entire protectorate of
l?l.l30 square miles. and population
OF 100000. including about 1000
whites, has thus been wrested from
German control, after n campaign that
tasted nearly year, having been be-
gun III the spring or 1915.
NO very recent British report of the
MeSopotamian operations is at hand
but Constantinople announces that
when Il British force down the Tigrls
from kut-el-Amara, where General
fownshcnd's army Is bottled up, tried
TO cross to the west bank of the river.
II was defeated in II thrcc-hour battle.
ana feii back to its second line posi-
tlohS' leaving II number OF dead. The
defeat OF Il Russian force which at-
tackled khcngavar. south of Hamndan.
far across the Persian border. ia also
reported by the Turkish War Office.
which declares the Russians lost
heavily.
From the Franco belgian front come
reports OF important troop movements
behind the German lines, but no news
Oh hBhtinS OH an extensive scale In
any sector. The British apparently
are continuing their efforts TO regain
their recently lost trenches southeast
or 1prcs, Belgium. but Berlin. in an
nouncing the second British attack at
THIS point within two days, declares.
that 1t was fruitless.
Mining operations. artillery engage
ments. small raidius expeditions ana
aerial boinbardlnents make up the list
or the other activities in this war area,
except minor and unsuccessful attaciS
by the Germans near BlanGy, in the
Artots district, announced from Paris.
HHITISH FAIL IN %T"rEMr"r
TO CROSS THE rIGRfS
CoNSTANTINOPLE. February 10 tvia
London>.-An attempt by British forces
In Mesopotamia to cross the Tigris be-
low kut-el-Amara was repulscd after
a battle OF three hours. the war ONCE
announced to-day. The British in their
retreat were pursued TO their second
line intrenchmcnts.
Announcement also is made that the
Russian forces in Persia have been
defeated In an encounter near Hama