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Show H Approaching Mesopotamian H Border and Forcing Moslems H to Retire Before Them. H TWO TOWNS CAPTURED Hl Turkish Offensive on Caucasus Hfl , Front, South of Banek, H Meets Repulse. B PETROGRAD, April 1, 11:30 p. m.f B via London, April 2, 1:15 a. m. "No H ' serious activity may be expected on H this front in the near future. The B melting snow renders the roads and Hj rivers impassable." H The declaration of the Russian war B minister, Alexander Guchoff at staff H headquarters, after a visit to the H northern front, appears to dissipate H the alarm created by the startling H -warning of the war minister a week H ago, that the capital itself was men- H aced by a threatened German attack. H II was argued at the time of the min- H ister's warning that the mobilization H f enemy forces along the northern Hj front was seized upon as a pretext H by the new government to arouse the H army and the workingmen and stem Hi Lno tide of disorganization. H Whether the danger was exagger- H ated, the effect of the warnings has Hl ben to arouse a sentiment of pa- H triotism among soldiers and workmen H ncA er before witnessed in Russia. On H the other hand, the war office was H evidently at that time convinced of H the Imminence of danger, as shown by H a statement to the Associated Press Hl that "the Germans plan to attempt an Hj immediate inarch on Petrograd." H Whatever prompted the warnings, H the situation is completely changed H from a week ago when alarm in the H capital was quite general. |