The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-02-22
Russ Capture All Fortress CAM
non, Many Field Pieces, Scores
Of Automobiles and Much Ann
munition When City Falls
ARMENIANs @BUTCHERED BY !
FLEEING OTTOMAN TROOPS
Latest Victory Of Grand Duke
Nicholas Already Producing
Political and Military Results.
Rumania Aiming To Join Allies
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n 0NDON, February 19.--Ths Grand
LII Duke Nicholas has formally report.
ed the victory of the Russian arm
les and the destruction Of the Turkish
forces at Erzerum. His despatch to
the Petrograd war Office announces that
the forts guarding the city were found
filed with Turkish dead when the
Russian soldiery entered them. The
slays, he adds, are pursuing the rem
rants of the shattered Turkish army,
which is in disorderly retreat.
Fig Guns Captured ISL
All of the fortress artillery with
which Erzerum was defended fell into
the hands of the Russians, as well as
a large number Of field pieces and i'm .
mense quantities of ammunition, with
scores of automobiles and motors and
a complete wireless apparatus. ~,
n PetrOgrad received the news of the
fall Of the Turkish city with demonstfaf
tions Of rejoicing. All over the coun-
tEB0it there were religious services Of
thanksgiving, and the streets of the
z Bcapitol and the larger cities have been
filed with enthusiastic crowds, say re-
ports from Russia. ai4at'i .tti:irlb& "
2 Armenians Butchsrsd ''sH sn!,, III
< That section y Of the Turkish army.
which escaped from the nippers Of the
Russian wings Is said TO have gone mad
with fear and hate before they fed.
Thousands of Armenians are reported
" have been butehered by the Turks
tIefote the city was cleared Of the OF
tbThAn hordes. Stores were looted and
women outraged, or dragged OF with
the fleeing army to slavery
The fall of Erzerum is already hav-
ing its political and military effect
Late reports from Bucharest to this
city declared that the Bulgarians are
getting ready to enter the war on the
side Of the Allies and that the the
armies OF that country are being mass
ed for q thrust against the Bulgarian
border. IL is asserted that masses of
Russians are being gathered in Besara
tia TO hold that line so Rumauia NAV
transfer her forces to the Bulgarian
frontier for the stroke.
Trick Brilliant One ,,
Petrograd also reports that in the
capture Of Erzerum the Slav command.
I rrs executed brilliant trick which
Y completely deceived the commanders Of
the Turkish garrison. FeintinG with
their left wing, the Russians held the
Turks so steadily there that the Otto.
- man generals were tTicked into the be-
lief that the main attack was coming
there. Instead the chief assault was
d. lirered in surprise frontal attach, ;,
that broke the Turkish defenses like
paper and drove the Ottoman army iii
D rout toward the west and south.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, in his of \
fetal report, gives no hint of the next
step in the campaign he has been Waa
ing so successfully, but it is believed
that the Russians have already pushed
on past Erzerum toward Barburt, sew.
enty-fye miles northeast of the captured
eity, on the road TO Trebizond.
Nay Attack Capital
Also there are reports that the Slays
are seriously contemplating a rear, at
tark on CORstaRtin0ple, which their
allies the French and British failed TO
reduce by the campaign on the GallipoIi
peninsula. There is nothing Official OF
even semi official, however, to indicate
that such a move is contemplated.
f The German newspapers. although
there is still lacking any official con,
firmation of the Russian triumph al
Erzernml from Turkish sources, accept
the reports of the Slav victory, but
minimize the importance of the capture
and its military or political effects.
Minor Events Elsewhere
For the rest of the far flung lines
OF the war there is but the reports Of
minor events to stir the interest, en-
eept in Albania, where the Austrians,
reinf0rced, are, said to have taken
Kavaga, near the city of Durazzo. I'll
this Is proved true later it will mean
that DurazzO is now practically sur
rounded by the advancing Teutons.
Berlin claims that the British at.
tempted again TO regain lost ground
near Ypres, but failed utterly, and sut
fered heavy losses under the FIRE of the
German guns. The only action on the
French front is said to have been an
unsnecessful assault on the German
trenches south Of the River Somme.
For the rest, there was but the usual
artillery exchange.
The Austria Italian theater reports no
ehanges, save that Vienna declares the
Italian artillery fire Is slackening.
Parliament learned last night that
Premier Asquith is planning to ask an
additional war credit of four million |
pounds soon. 49,