Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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west or scmtii as they euuld findan o;H-ning to etscupe from the Itussian guns.The city was nearly intact, and as the con-querors gazed on the triple ravine, the highwalls and the three rings of forts bristling withguns, they may well have belie\cd that suchan acliievement in such a time was little lessthan miraculous. and route«l, but there was still the possibilityof further resistance to the north and t(» thesouth, for the nuich-needcd rcinforcciueniswere coming up from Const ant iiio;)le as speedilyas the conditions of roads and weather per-mitted. No time was lost by Ceneral Yudeniteh,an alIllo^l simultaneous stroke being deliveredin the direction of I^ake Van, where, on Febru-ary 10, Mush and Aklet were captured. Mushwas one of the centres of the Armenian massacreof the year before, and its delivery from theTurk was thus doubly welcome. The place is,next to Bitlis, the most important in the Vandistrict, the two being commonly spoken ofas guarding the gates of Mesoi)otamia. The
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RUSSIANS AWAITING THE ORDER TO ADVANCE. Yudenitchs crowniing \ictory at Erzerumwas so sudden and so overwhelming that theGrand Duke Nicliolas, whose labours at head-quarters had been invaluable, was not in timeto come up for the final triumph. He receivedthe great news at Tiflis, where he was enthu-siastically acclaimed by the people in thepalace square. It was more than compensa-tion for all the disheartening retreats of theprevious year, and he hastened to send thefollowing message to the Emperor : God has granted the brave troops of the army of theCaucasus such great help that Erzenim has been takenafter five days of unprecedented assault. I am in-expressibly happy to announce this victory to yourImperial Majesty. It was a veritable debacle of the ThirdTurkish Army, whose ventre was driven in clearing of the right flank followed, and with theaid of gunboats from the Black Sea Fleetthe Turks were pressed back along the coast tothe left bank of the Buyuk Dere river. Anot herportion o

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