The Cordova daily times., 1916-08-03

rescues of wounded comrades under fire and of countless similar deeds that thrilled the watching world.
 The first move in the great allied offensive was not made by the Franco British, however, but by the Russians. On June the troops Of the Emperor Nicholas opened a tre mendous assault on the Austro-Ger- man lines on a three hundred mile | front, extending from the Pripet marshes to Rumania. The Teuton lines held firm in the north, but to the south General Brussiloff swept with irresistible force through the Austrian defenses, tearing a great gap about 100 miles in extent. Through this the Russians poured, capturing Czernowitz. the capital of Bukowina. and overrunning the crown land. The Austrian losses are declared to have been enormous, month after the offensive began the Russians making an official announcement that over 200. .OOO prisoners has been taken and at least an equal number killed or wounded.
 As the offensive developed the Rus sians won new successes further north, and at the close of the war year are engaged in mighty struggle for Lemberg the capital of Galicia. The fighting has also extended to the ex- treme north, in the Riga-Dvinsk re- zion, but here the Germans have held their own, and no decisive result has as yet been gained by either side.
 In another theatre of the war the year was marked by other and i'm portant Russian successes. Following the disasters on the eastern front in the closing months of 1915 the Grand Atuht NlCHpldS was iClhoNCu dS NOhA mander in chief of the Russian armies and sent to take charge of the oper- ations against the Turks in the Cau- casus After months of preparation he began a great drive across Armenia in January, 1915, which resulted in the capture of Erzerum and the port of Trebizond, and expelled the Turks from the greater part of Armenia. Af- ter a comparative Hull of some months the grand duke resumed his advance simultaneous with a serious uprising against the Turks by the Arabs in Arabia. The Arabs took the sacred city of Mecca, Jiddah and Taif and be- sieged Medina, the city where Mo hammed was buried and one of the holiest spots of the Mohammedan world. In the meantime the Russians took Mamakhutan and Baiburt, but these operations have not yet reached a definite conclusion.
 In connection with the Turkish cam paign, the year saw serious reverse for the Franco British arms and less important, but highly dramatic, disas- ter for the British. The disastrous at tempt of the French and British to force the Dardanelles and seize Con stantinople was definitely abandoned in November, 1915, and the allied troops withdrawn from the Gallipoii peninsula. About 150,O00 troops had been used in this venture, supported by mighty fleet. Six battleships' five British and one French, were sent to the bottom, as we'll as some minor craft and the casualties were unofficially reported to be almost equal to the original number of the expeditionary force. This was the result of six months of some of the most sanguinary fighting Of the war
 The second disaster of the British was the surrender of 10000 troops un' der General Townshend to the Turks at Kut-eLAmara on the Tigris. This expedition had made a sensational dash more than 300 miles up the river in an attempt to seize Bagdad. If was within ten miles of the city when 1t was decisively defeated by the Turks and forced to fall back loo miles. Here 1t was surrounded and forced to surrender after a relief force had made several vain efforts at rescue.
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