Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-17 | Page 1 | Turks Withdraw Advance Posts

IRIS WITHDRAW ADVANCE POSTS Troops Hold Back Strong Russian Rus-sian Forces and Inflict. Heavy Losses. Berlin, Jan 17. By Wireless to Sayville After delaying foi1 a week the advance of strong Russian forces in the Caucasus, the Turks have withdrawn with-drawn their advanced posts several miles at some points, according to the Turkish official statement of today received here from Constantinople. The statement follows: "In the Caucasus the Russians repeated re-peated their attacks against Turkish positions on both banks of the Arasa, suffering heavy losses, especially in the district between the Arasa and the Inid valley. Here Turkish advanced ad-vanced posts retired some kilometers after having delayed strong enemy forces for one week." Regarding operations in Mesopotamia Mesopot-amia the statement says: "There has been Intermittent artillery artil-lery fire near Kut-cl-Amara." oo