Feb. 1, For the purposes of this article the term Middle East may be taken as covering the immense, and, to the general reader, verY unfamiliar, regions that lie be tween the Black Sea and the Caspian on the North and_ the Gulfs of Alexandretta and Oman on the south, the country, that is to say which comprises the Caucasion, the Persian and the Mesopotamian fronts. The object it view is to show the relation of somewhat confused events and to put before the reader in hi outline the situation which cent telegrams have described in detail. A passage in one of yes terday's telegrams furnishes convenient starting point. "The Russian syecesses on the Persian front" it said, "where they feated a Turkish division south of Lake Urmia and drove back the enemy southeast of Hamadan sre important factors in the gem plan of campaign, which is pro
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