The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-25
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
. !. The WAR.


tinue their pursuit of the remnants of
the Turkish army that fed Erzerum.
a Bucharest dispatch says the Rus
slams have captured Baiburt, an
ancient city northwest of Erzerum
and that beyond this place battle is
raging All speculation for the present
is the direction the Russ offensive
now will take in Asia Minor.
On the Italian front Vienna reports
a fortress shelled by Italians
Paris reports the French made a
gain at Artois by pressing forward in
to a German trench after a mine ex-
plosion had produced huge crater.
Saturday, Feb. 19.-The Petrograd
war office reports the capture of Mush,
in Asiatic Turkey, lying eighty-three
miles southeast of Erzerum, and All
lata. The Russians took prisoner what
remained of the Thirty-fourth Turkish
division, with large quantity of war
supplies.
Russians troops are now being trans
ported from Batum, where they have
been held in readiness for several
months While the troop landing was
being made Russians torpedo boats
shelled the Black sea coast, sinking
fifteen Turkish sailing ships near
TrebiZond.
The complete conquest of the KAN
erUn, the German colony in equatorial
Africa, is reported in London.
An attempt by British forces in
Mesopotamia to cross the Tigris be-
low Kut-el-Amara was repulsed after
a battle of three hours, the Constan-
tinople war office has announced
The British in their retreat were pur
sued to their second line of entrench.
ments
Sunday, Feb. 2o.-Four German Sea
aeroplanes raided Lowestoft and Wal
mer of the east coast of England.
Three people are reported Ritled. At
Walmer the bomb explosion occurred
during church services and threw a
congregation into a panic. German
planes also dropped bombs on the
eastern front and also Dunkirk on the
west British and Italian planes also
bombarded towns, but the Italian
plane was shot down in Austria
The Russians continue to press the
fleeing Turks in Asia Minor The
towns of Mush and Ahlab were occu-
pied by the Russ, and at Mush an en-
tire army corps. 10000 men surrender
ed to the Slavs Mush southwest
of Erzerum.
On the West front the Germans
took an advanced British post north
of Ypres of $50 yards Paris says
they were afterwards driven out, but
London does not confirm it.
An attack on the French positions
in the Artois was repulsed
Monday, Feb. 21.-Before the ad-
vancing Russ the Turks in Northeas-
tern Asia Minor are fleeing to the east
and south The Lake Van region and
Bitlis beyond have been evacuated,
Petrograd reports. The Russian right
wing is advancing along the Black
sea, the Slav warships demolishing
Cne shore. batteries, anu IHe russian
forces pushing forward. Trebizond is
being neared. and Petrograd reports
say it will not resist. Two Ottoman
corps. on the way to Erzerum, heard
of the fortress fall and turned back.
The Russian advance points on the
left to Diarbekr, near the Bagdad rail-
road. If this point is reached, the
Turk forces in Mesopotamia will be
cut off.
The Roumanian government has
submitted to parliament bill raising
the war appropriation from $60,000,-
900 to $4,000, 900. Russia sees in this
the participation of Roumania in the
war on the side of the entente
The British parliament passed a
new credit for $2,100,000,000