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Show TURK ARMY IN CAUCASUS BEGINS NEW OFFENSIVE bOXPON. Feb. 23. The Turki.sU army in the Cauca.Mis lias be;o.in an ofrensive. a correspondent of the lixcliaiute Telegraph tornr'iny wirs from tlie liead.niarifrs of the Rusian western army. The attack w as started before the r plm t Ion of t he armisiir... Thf Turks o-vapicd I latana ami pa rah zed the evaluation of the I'mi-eastan I'mi-eastan ruri'S, which '. now grouped along the coaM. Flatana Is a small Turkish port on the Flack bt;i oojf-t tn the llaet of Trehl-zond. Trehl-zond. tifieen miles f-t of lie tit- of TrebizotKl and P'l niiVs w-fst of the Russian Rus-sian border. At the height of their successes suc-cesses . in Turkey, the Ru!ans piished conniderahly west of Piatana and Hko well to the south, occupying all of Turkish Armenia. I.on after Tightniif erased on the Russo-Gali'Man Russo-Gali'Man front the Rassian troops m the Caucasus kept up G.e campaign. b;:t for ! several weeks no reports f.oni this front have been received. The R is--'afis mjieed at Bret-lvf.to sk to evacuate Turkish territory, ter-ritory, und the withdrawal was und-r way ut the time of the new Turkish at-ta-'k. Occupation of Phiiani would cut orT the retreat of Russian forces along the coast west of that point. |