The Caucasian Front: The operations on the Turkish front, which lasted for two weeks and were carrie ed out according to plans laid down beforehand, justified our calculations. Having with considerable success developed their primary blow against the centre of the Turkish army, the troops of General Iudenich, during the pursuit of the enemy, with their vanguards the Erzeroum fortifiestions. At the same time, having impetuously attacked the right flank of the Turks, they forced them to evacuate the Melazgerd—Shnis re-of enemy from a forty mile front, which had been strongly fortified beforehand, and have descended from a mountainous country, where the climatic conditions were very severe, into regions comparatively densely populated and easy of access. They 351 ste favourable for quartering troops during the winter.
During these operations we captured @ number of Turkish officers, and men, also guns, machine guns and large quantities of stores, artillery munitions and engineering impiements. On January £9 our scouts, during the pursuit of the Turks in the region of the River Tchorokh, captured Turkish prisoners and over 100 head of cattle and fodder.
Petrograd, Feb. 1.
Russian scouts have blown up the Baranoviteh-Vilna railway which the Germans recently repaired.
The Germans are using new small aeroplanes on the southern front An official communique says The Russians in the Caucasus advanced towards the River Tohorokh pursuing the Turks. They also captured a village on the southern shore of Lake Van and drove back the enemy near Kermanshah, in Persia.
Some attempted German attacks in Western Russia were arrested by the Russian fire.
The Germans renewed their artillery fire on several parts of the northern front. Ib was especially vigorous in the region of Riga and on the flanks of the Dvinsk positions.
The fact that the Germans attempted to break up ice on the River Dvina above Friedrichstadt serves as a general indication of the defensive nature of the German operations on this front.
Feb. 3.
An official communique reports The Russians continue to advance in the Caucasus. They found 300 frozen bodies of Turks in one position.
Russian scouts in the Riga region have shown great daring in crossing wire entanglements and firing the enemy's working-parties. Am armoured motor-car dashed to the front of the trenches, shelled the enemy and returned unharmed though it was cannonaded. A similar incident occurred in Galicia between Tarnopol and Lemberg, when Russian bomb-throwers destroyed the enemy's entanglements, captured a lunette and pursued the fleeing garrisons.
There was heavy cannonading on the Dniester—Pruth Front. The enemy, covered by the fire of 12 inch guns, twice and was repul
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