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Show 1JMi!il !'V :s I FIGHTING DUEL H London, Feb. 18. While full details Hi of tho capture of Erzerum, Turkish HJ Armenia, are still lacking, semi-offi- Hl cial advices from Petrograd are to the H effect that most of tho Turkish garrl- H son madetheir escape. Thousands of Hl Armenians arc declared to have been Hl massacred by Kurds before the evacu- H Tho Austrians and Italians at var- H ious points are still engaged in artil- Hj lery duels and occasional infantry H maneuvers, but no notable victories Hl have been won by either side. Vienna H reports less activity than usual on the H part of the Italians' guns. H In Albania the Austro-Hungarians H reinforced by Albanians, presumably H irregulars, have occupied Kavaya, H which lies eight miles southwest of H Durazzo and three miles from the H Adriatic. By tho capture of this town H It would seem that the Teutons have H Durazzo nearly surrounded, Gend- H armes of Essad Pasha, provisional H president of Albania, who defended H Kavalaya, made their escape from H the town and 'fled on a ship into the H Adriatic. Essad Pasha has been de- H prived of his rank and removed from H the Turkish army list for having as H sumed the leadership of the pro- H visional government of Albania and H joined the ranks of the entente aljies. H London, Feb. IS. New British at- H tempts to regain sections of the Ypres H early in the week have been repulsed H with heavy losses to the English H troops, according to the Berlin war H office statement H Tho British official statement H makes no mention of the so-called H "sanguinary losses." The report is- H sued by the war office tonight mere- H ly mentions artillery fighting, in H .vhich bombardment of the German H position north of the Ypres-Comines H canal was given the greatest promi- Fighting about hill 140, in Artois, H.neveloped to the slight advantage of H the French, who were able to occupy H the southern edge of a mine crater H which they exploded between two H German trenches German attempts H to dislodge the French were uusuc- |