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Show TURKS DEFEATED t RUSSJJROOPS OTTOMANS DRIVEN FROM A STRONGLY ORGANIZED POSITION POSI-TION EAST OF TREBIZOND. Hard Fought Infantry Engagements. Around Verdun, While British Report Re-port the Raiding of German Trenches South of Bethune. London. The Turks have met with, another defeat at the hands of the Russians in the Black sea littoraL Petrograd reports that the Russians have driven the Ottomans from a strongly organized position fifteen miles east of Trebizond and are pursuing pur-suing them energetically. The Douaumont-Vaux sector northeast north-east of Verdun has been the scene of another hard-fought infantry engagement, engage-ment, but the Paris and Berlin official reports are at variance as regards the result. Paris reports that south of Douaumont the French troops In an attack captured sections of German, trenches and took 200 prisoners. Berlin Ber-lin asserts that in the fighting which extended from Fort Douaumont to the Vaux ravine, the French wer& repulsed re-pulsed with sanguinary casualties and in addition lost 200 men taken prisoners. prison-ers. The Germans are heavily bombarding bombard-ing French positions in the Avocourt wood and on hill 304, and considerable consider-able artillery activity also is being-displayed being-displayed around Douaumont and in the Woevre about Moulainville, Hau-dimont Hau-dimont and Les Eparges. The British report the raiding of German trenches south of the Beth-une-La Bassee road, while Berlin records re-cords the destruction of a British position po-sition about sixty meters in length in, mining operations near Vermelles. Artillery bombardments continue at various places on the northern Russian Rus-sian line. Farther south, near Smor-gon, Smor-gon, the Germans started an offensive, offen-sive, but were repulsed, while south, of the Olyka station the Russians at several places have made advances. In the Sugana valley and Carso sectors sec-tors of the Austro-Italian zone, the Italians have taken Austrian trenches. The Austrians evidently are fighting; hard to regain the Sugana valley positions, po-sitions, as Rome reports that they are being maintained under a curtain of: fire. |