The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-23
RUSSIA

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
PETROGRAD, Feb. 23.-Russian
vanguards are within few miles Of
Rizeh, thirty-five miles east Of Trebiz-
ond, and the capture of Trebizond it.
self Is now but few days diatant,
according to Tiflis dispatches today.
Armenian refugees, fleeing from the
christian quarter Of Trebizond outside
Russian lines. They repor' : that the
Turks have been empty ~ city Of
all Its valuable stores a tne fall Of
Erzerum, Err. s.r,..evnn EVIDENT ing no ser
1--WE ase 6 ng tho pursuit. of
the remna' ~ the Turkish army"
office today
Announcement Of fresh successes In
the Caucasus which brought enthus-
iastic demonstrations at the opening of
the dura, was followed by the official
won skirm'shes with tho Austro-oer
front from the Baltic to Roumania.
"AIong the Riga and Dvlna fronts,
German avIators dropped bombs,"
od'S VIC Si'S'oi oo0eSshS'Ss SfSiSi'A
artillery actions occurred along the
Dvina and also on the Jacobstadt sec
tor and around Orteg, near lllukst.
"Northwest OF Lake Sventen, one OF
our regiments made a successful re-
connaisanoe, annihllatIna the occu-
rants Of German trench, $50 men
and two officers. Our forces repused
counter attack by enemy reserves
and returned to their own lines, taking
many prisoners. In the Smorecn dis
trlot we penetrated enemy entangle-
ments, bayonettlnu some of the trench
occupants and forcing others to flee.
"on the upper strypa, the Austrians
tried to approach our trenches, but
were repuIsed with heavy losses. We
took a number of prisoners.
"Near Buczacz In GaIicia, an enemy
aeropiane dropped flaming rags at the
village Of khmelieka without effect.
We exploded a group Of mines success
fully near Eoyana, northeast Of Ger
nowitz, destroying Austrian positions
and occupying the mine craters."
AFTER THE WAR.
LONDON. Feb. 23.-An lnternation-
al agreement for at least partial dis
armament may be possible If Prussian
"mIitarism" Is destroyed by this war,
the Russian foreign minister, M. sa-
zonoff, declared In an Interview with
the Daily Chronicles Petrograd cor
respondent.
"lf Prussian rilitarisnn, that evil
thing which has darkened all our lives
for so many years, Is finally destroyed
as most firmly believe it will be-
said M. Sazonoff, "then ! think some
measure Of disarmament may be pos
sible. 1t should be quite possible, for
with England and Russia friends, the
rest Of the world is safe.
"EngIand, France and Russia are
responsible now for the future of
Europe, which is the future of civiiiza-
ton, the fate Of the world. We can
and we shall destroy Prussianism. 1t
may take a long time. We are pre-
pared for that; there will be no i'm
conclusive peace; no peace with a
risk attached to 1t. Prusssanism, which
Is a deadly poison, must be flung
clean out Of the human body. We
dare not leave it there to work once
more for the destruction of nations"
The Chronicles correspondent
pointed out that Scandinavians fear
and dislike Russia, believing that the
STavs may some time invade their ter
ritory to obtain a warm water port.
This fear. he suggested. would be
greatly relieved, if 1t were known for
certain that Russia would hold Con-
stantropIe at the end Of the war.
"That Is essential for u.s." replied
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