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Show RUSSIANS OCCUPY TOWNS IN PERSIA PARIS, fce. fi, U':20 p. in. A dis-p:itch dis-p:itch to the Ha v:tH a en,-y frnm Pet m-grad m-grad says it is ni l I I : l 1 1 y announced that on I ii't enihcr ' the Russian army of the C'aiirMMiiri occupied the towns of Sara I -Koi and .Rasehka, in the eastern part of Turkey in Asia, near, the I'crsJan border. "as the result of battles occurring on the DM man and Khoi routes." Dilrnan and Khoi are both towns of northwestern northwest-ern Persia, in that section lying between Turkey in Asia and Eussfan territory. "Although making desperate resistance resist-ance before these points," the official statement says, "the Turks were forced to retire in the direction of Van (a luke in the eastern part of Turkey in Asia k abandoning many wounded and prisoners. We have taken possession of depots of provisions and war munitions at Bas-chkal." |