Show RUSSIANS ROUTED THE PERSIAN TRIBESMEN tiflis april 17 the russian troops which recently invaded persian territory in the vicinity of Len koran for the purpose of punishing kurdish raiders of tho russian garrison at the frontier post Bolc april 13 acted with a promptitude calculated to over awo the tribes of the first class near tho fight which ensued assumed the proportions ot a pitched battle the russians were greatly outnumbered but ahey pressed the battle with great vigor and routed the persians inflicting a loss of 34 men killed and 50 wounded the remainder of the tribesmen broko and fled tho russians lost one officer and seven soldiers wounded woun dad the cannonade abet alro vallage ot the destruction of which was ed by the cossacks after a ruthless house to house search for the russian arms stolen during the raid of april 13 pressing their advantages the russians bombarded the neighboring villages of and bearin and razed both tile non combatants suffered great losses the theater of war is in the mountain range of Kara dagh which wedges in the russian bp andary and is the traditional kingdom of robber tribes who boast thousands of fighters armed with modern implements of war and organized with a semblance of military discipline the robbers had cut the telegraph lines in order to hamper the mobilization of an expedition which persia is assembling against them at Tab eniz the russian expeditionary force now on persian soil aggregate cossacks a squadron of sharpshooters sharp shooters and a battery of machine guns it wis intended to send a much larger fo ce there but a phenomenal flood of the aras river hinders the collection of reinforcements from baku and other points north |