The Turks have suffered a further crushing defeat in the
Caucasus, and the remnants of the 11th Army Corps are being hurled back on Erzrum. After the victory at Sary- kamysh, the Russians were pursuing the 10th Corps, when they OREme across the 11th Corps near Kara Urgan. For three days the battle with this corps continued in a snow- storm, and its rearguard was annihilated. The prisoners, who were very numerous, were scarcely able to stand from exhaustion. The 10th Corps has also been very hard hit again. The garrison of Erzrum is, according to an estimate in the Times, between twenty-five thousand and thirty thousand men. To these numbers will be added what remains of the retreating and demoralized army. The Betels believes that the Turks could not now assemble more than eighty thousand men in the whole Armenian theatre of war. No help can be expected from Constantinople, which is itself menaced. Enver'a offensive plans seem already to have failed.
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