Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — TURKS ON OFFENSIVE [ARTICLE]

TURKS ON OFFENSIVE

180,000 OF SULTAN’S TROOPS RECAUCASUS FIGHT. Attacks Against Russians Resumed atThrec Different Points With Strong Forces. z . Petrograd, via London, Jan. 29. The Turks, who, since the reverses they suffered a month ago at Sari Kamysh and Ardahan, have been more, or less inactive, .again are faking the offensive at three widely separated namely, in the Tohoruk district directly south of Batum, near Olti, west of Kars, and in the province of Khoi, northwest of Tabriz. The Turkish strength at these three points is estimated to aggregate four and one-half corps, or 126 battalions, 180,000 men, with 264 guns. The force includes 35 cavalry squadrons and 75,000 men of the second line. The general staff of the Russian army*of the Caucasus gives out the following: “On January 26 Turkish forces in the vicinity of Sultan Selim delivered a series of vigorous attacks on our positions, all of which we repulsed. In .the vicinity of Olti, 55 miles west of Kars, the Turks sent forward an enveloping column which was thrown back with heavy losses. “In Azerbaijan province, Persia, Kurds supported by regular Turkish troops have undertaken offensive operations near Khoi, but have been repulsed.” Berlin, Jan. 29 (by wireless). —A statement issued by the Turkish army headquarters at Constantinople announces that the Ottoman troops in a new offensive movement in the Caucasus have defeated the Russians near Olti, a town 55 miles west of Kars.