Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-17 | Page 4 | Fighting in the Caucasus

FIGHTING IN THE CAUCASUS. Husfaia has organized a new otfen-Blve otfen-Blve against tho Turks. Today's war news reports the retreat of the Turks In the Caucasus. This news, following follow-ing a Constantinople dispatch that the Russians were attacking over a front o. 100 miles indicates- a very strong ofiensive on the part of the Czar's forces. With fighting on the snow-covered front from Riga south to Gallcia reduced re-duced to a minimum, the Russians are able to send large 'forces sSSS"S the milder climate whore the Turk is encountered. K ,s Itls Just possible the Russians hope B to drive the followers of the Sultnn 1 back through Turkey in Asia and 1 from that direction evontually roach I Constantinople. The British, coming I up the Tigris, might join forces with 1 them and make a combined attack 1 on the Turks. This would be feas- 1 ible, if the British could throw a rail- I lion men in to Mesopotamia.