It is too early to say what effect the Russian
victory will have upon our campaign in Mesopotamia. We do not doubt, how- ever, that it will have far-reaching results. Unless we are mistaken, Enver Pasha will soon find himself far too busy to detach more men for the crushing of the British Expeditionary Force. In this context we may note two things. The first is that the fall of Erzerum is bound to inflict a tremendous blow on Enver's prestige. Here was the theatre in which the Turkish War Minister exercised a special personal influence. He and his German Staff thought to deal the Russian Army of the Caucasus a crushing blow. Instead, the blow has fallen on their own heads. The murmurs against the man who has sold himself and his people to Gerdaany, already-heard in Constantinople, will, we may be sure, not be less loud after Wednesday's Mikis. The other point to be recorded is the Nemesis which has
overtaken Turkey for her evil deeds in Armenia. The world has been too busy and too ill-informed as yet to realize the full extent of the Armenian tragedy, and to appreciate how during the past year a whole people have been given up to military execu- tion—that is, to wholesale massacre. But the blood of the Armenian men, women, and children which has literally soaked the land has been crying aloud for vengeance, and now, as far as human sight can see, vengeance is coming upon the Turk.
