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Show RUSSIANS ARE IRRESISTIBLE Petrograd, April 11, via London, 8 45 i m A telegram to the Bourse Qasette from Tif lis. trans -Caucasia, says that the Turks have occupied Hamadan, a cit of Persia, Per-sia, H55 miles Bouthwesl ol Teheran. Hamadan is an entrepot for the commerce between Bagdad, Tabriz,! Ispahan and Teheran It has a pop-j ulatlon of about 25,000 Petrograd, April 11, via London. 11 p. m. The following official statement state-ment from general bpadquarters was Issued tonight: "West of the Nieraen, isolated actions ac-tions continue in the region of the river Szeszupa. "In the Carpathians trip enemy on April 9 and the following night, ut-j tacked in serried columns, strongly! supported by artillery, our Lroops who bad adanced toward the southern south-ern slopes of the principal mountain chain These attacks were repulsed with enormous losses to the enem and we captured a battalion with twenty-three ofiicers and machine! gnns "In the direction of Uzsok, after a stubborn fight, we carried Beveral heights, capturing lftOO men. twenty two officers and four machine guns "In the direction of Stry (east Gali- cia) the enemy's attacks have tinned On the other sections of oui hont there has been no marked change." |