Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-26 | Page 1 | Russians Sweep to Victory in Persia

RUSSIANS RUSSIAN S SWEEP TO VICTORY IN i PERSIA HI Turks Flee Before Host From North Who Seek Junction With Brit British sh i Mesopotamian Mesopotamia Column RESULT T IMPORTANT Czars Czar's Army Is Within Miles of Townshend's Townshend's Town- Town Force Which Is Is Going Up Tigris LONDON Feb 26 A A Reu Ru er dispatch from Petro Petrograd grad says ays hat that the Russians have taken 1 by byarm y yorm I lorm arm orm the i important Persian city cit in the neighbor neighborhood hood af t which serious serious fighting has recently aken iken place An An official dispatch from Teheran Teheran published yesterday said that after a aeries aeries' series cries eries' eries of battles In the mountain passes asses as a result of which the Rus- Rus Tans ans ns captured a considerable quantity r of of- f- f booty boot the Turks who had been I aided ded by Germans ha had retreated toward toward to- to ward ard Is isso so miles so southwest of ot Teheran and andas andas as las a population of about The outes Dutes from Bagdad y 1 way of ot Hamadan and v li h meet there and make the city an Important center of traffic t The Russian operations in Persia which have culminated in the capture rif f have had the local purpose of putting an end to the activities r of hostile mountain forces and ties es 01 or- bands of Kurds and it is be- be eved that they have the broader scope of f preparing the way for a junction of the he Russians with the British expeditionary forces in Mesopotamia The of the Russians from Hamadan Hama- Hama dan southwestward to rings brings them now to within miles mUes pf t c Kut Kut-el-Amara on the Tigris where T Townshend Townshend's s British force which was ascending the riv river r for the conquest of Bagdad is besieged by the Turks irks