Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eir fears pronipted tlieni to auspect any-tliing in the natiuO of clisattection, the Kurdsacting as willing instriunents whenever calledon. The massacres of April-July, 1915—theniOHt systematic, widespretiil and ruthless ofa long series ha\e already been descriljed atlength.* It is only necessary here to remindreaders that the Turkish defeats in the Caucasus tuined mainly with the view of koe()ing occupiedHaliti IJey and the remnants of his army and(jieventing tliem frtuu reinforcing the Turkishtroops at Maghdad and down the Iigris, wherethe iiritish force was advancing from thePersian (Julf. At the beginning of May quitea notable little \i(tory over su;)eiior nuitiberswas gained by the Hussians at Dilman, to thenorth-west uf Lake Urmia. Meanwhile theTurkish army hud to some extent reorganiz<t<litself aft»*r the disaster of January, with iluiaid of reinforcements from Anatolia and fromSyria, but neither side was sufliciently sup-ported from headfjuarters to ))e in a j)osition
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MACHINE GUNS CAPTURED AT SARIKAMISH. and on the Suez Canal (February, 1915) andtheir failure to make good their plans for theconquest of Western Persia impelled them toassert the supremacy of their race and theirreUgion in the Eastern liigMands. They didit in wholesale fashion, and they resumed tlieprocess at intervals afterwards, a message fromBaku in November, 1916, annovmcing themassacre at Sivas of 5,000 of the 6,000 Armeniansleft alive at that place. During the rest of the suimtier of 1915 nothing of military importance occurred or was reported from the main front in the Caucasus. Russian pressure in Western Persia was still inain- * Vol. VIII., Chap. CXXXIII. to think of resuming operations. The Britishforce continued its successful advance inMesopotamia ; Egjpt and Arabia still detainedconsiderable forces, wliile the landing on theGallipoli peninsula, with its direct menace toConstantinople, caused very real anxiety inthe Turldsh capital. All tliis time Russia wasfighting for h

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