Dec. penetrated burned a steamer wharf on the Lake of Urmia and pillaged the villages. The Governor of the province has protested and resigned.
(720m sarrisn tration, PEKrxo.]
London, Dec. 23.
The Russian Caucasus Staff re port that the Turks have been defeated near Van with severe losses.
The Russians captured one mountain gun.
Dec. 24.
The Russian destroyers in the Black Sea bombarded the coast villages south of Batoum where the Turkish troops were concentrated. Four fully laden feluccas were sunk.
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