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Show TURKS DEFEATED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS ONE ARMY CORPS SURRENDERS, WHILE REMNANTS OF OTHER ARE BEING PURSUED. Both Petrograd and Berlin Assert That Conditionu in Eastern Theatre of War Remain Practically Unchanged, Un-changed, the Fight Proceeding. Turkey apparently has suffered one of the worst defeats of the war. Petrograd Pet-rograd reports that two of the Ottoman army corps in the Caucasus have been utterly defeated in the district of Sari Kamysh, Transcauasia, one of them surrendering, while the remnants of the otier are teing relentlessly pursued. pur-sued. In addition, still another corps in the vicinity of Ardahan is reported to be striving desperately to find an outlet through the snow-filled passes of the Armenian mountains to escape from the oncoming Muscovites. These Turkish forces evidently had Tiflis, capital of Transcaucasia, as their ob, jective. That the Russians worked havoo among the Turks at Sari Kamysh ia indicted by the statement in the official of-ficial report that the small bodies oC troops which succeeded in escaping "were vigorously pursued and destroyed." de-stroyed." In the eastern theatre of war both Petrograd and Berlin assert that conditions con-ditions remain virtually unchanged, although al-though the operations are proceeding without cessation. In the west the most severe fighting is taking place on the eastern end of the line, where the French declare they have made gains in the occupation occupa-tion of strategic positions in the vicinity vicin-ity of Rouvrois and St. Mihiel. While Great Britain is favorable to the plan of the United States to certify cer-tify cargoes destined for European ports, it is said that she cannot consider con-sider such certification an absolute guarantee and that the right of search cannot be waived. if. $ v: r . -. y P'r f TT A ! ADMIRAL MADDEN Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, Mad-den, C. V. O., who commands the Third cruiser squadron of the British navy. I He was born in 1868. |