Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-22
RUSSIANS PRESSING
HARD ON HEELS OF
ENEMY IN ARMENIA
Towns of MuSh and AhIatl 83
Miles South Southeast of
ErzerJm, in ASiatiC Turkey,
Have Been Captured


WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-The Rus
slams are following up with vigor their
recent success in Turkish Ammonia;
Constantinople reports a reverse for the
British in !.Afesopotamia. while London
announces the completion of the con-
quest % the Kamerun, the important
German colony in Western Equatorial
Africa. The immense forces massed
in the European war areas are just now
comparatively inactive.
The latest official statement by the
Russian war office reports the capture of
the towns Of Mush. in Asiatlc Turkey.
SO miles soUth-southwest of Erzerum
and Ahlat The pursuit of the Turkish
forces who retreated from Erzerum is
being continued and the Russians have
taken prisoner what remained of the
thirty-fourth Turkish division, with
large quantity of war supplies.
An air raid by n squadron of Italian
machines against Laibach, capital of
Cariola, Austria-Hungary, is officially
reported from Rome. Bombs were drop
ped on the town, and they are thought
to have done considerable damage. Aus
uian aeroplanes assembled for the pur-
pose of driving off the raiders, and six
and brought him to earth
Pursuit Of the Turks, who fled from
Erzerum with the fall of the fortress
is being continued by the Russians. The
possibility of a stand by the Ottoman
forces west of the city is being consid-
cred by Petrograd, but no reports of
such resistance have been received. The
Russians also are active along the
Black sea coast and have reported n
L. -, h.
miles east of Trebizond. considered one
of the next objective of Russian land
forces by a march of about 100 miles
northwest from Erzerum. The COM
pletion of the Kamerun conquest 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 the Germans, their southern
forces having recently retreated ove-
the border into Spanish Guiana, where
they were informed The entire protec
torate of 191, $50 square miles and pop
ulation of 2,540,0OO, including about
1000 whites, has thus been wrested from
German control after a campaign Of
nearly a year.
No very recent report Of the Mespo-
tamian operations is at hand, but Con-
stantinople announces that when a Brit
ish force down the Tigris from Kut-El-
army is bottled up, tried to cross to the
west bank of the river it was defeated
in a three-hour battle and fell back to
its second line positions, leaving a num-
Der of dead. The defeat of a Russian
force which attacked Khengavar, south
of Hamadan, far across the Persian Dor
der, is also reported by the Turkish war
office, which declares the Russians lost
heavily. e....
From the Franco-Belgian front come
reports of important troop movements
behind the German lines but no news
of fighting on an extensive scale in any
sector. The British apparently are con-
tinuing their efforts to regain their re-
Gently lost trenches southeast of Ypres,
Belgian, but Berlin in announcing the
second British attack at this point
within two days declares that it was
fruitless.
Mining operations, artillery engage
ments, small riding expeditions and
aerial bombardments make up the list
of the other activities in this war arena,
except a minor and unsuccessful attack
by the. Germans near Blangy in the
Artois district, announced from Paris.
A Shanghai dispatch brings the news
that the American steamer China, just
out OF Shanghai for San Francisco, was
stopped by a British auxiliary cruiser
and the thirty-eight Germans taken Off.