Peking, Nov. 5.
The following official telegram has been handed to Reuter's Agency, Peking, by the Russian Legation Petrograd, Nov. 4.
The Turkish Fleet in the Black Sea has assembled in the bays of the Straits and seems unwilling to encounter the Russians.
'A Russian detachment suddenly attacked some Turks at Ardest. The Turks fled abandoning their wounded. The Russians have repulsed the enemy from the village of Id and captured a quantity of stores. They attacked and captured Alikikissa, Horosan and Karaderbent Pass, A sotnia of Cossacks intrepidly attacked the enemy's tron. ches and slaughtered some Turkish infantry. A detachment of Russian troops, having marched eighty kilometres in thirty hours through mountain passes, vigorously attacked the Turks at' Nisun and Chad They dispersed strong detachments of Kurds and occupied Dia capturing prisoners, rifles and ammunition.
On the 3rd the Russians occupied Baiazed. The Turks who opposed tao, them ware dispersed.
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