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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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om the attempts of the enemy.The ways of Providence arc inscrutable, but my duty andmy desire determine m< in my resolution for the goodof the State. The invasion of the enemy on the Western front,which necesHitalcH the gnatcst possible concentrationof the civil and military authorities, as well us theunification of the command in the field, lias turned ourattention from the southern Iront. At this moment Irecognize the necoHsity of your assistance and counselson our southern front, and I appoint you Viceroy ofthe Caucasus and Coniinandcr-in-Chief of tho valiantCaucasian Army. I express to your Inipt^riul Highness my profoundgnililudi- ami lliat of (he country for your laboursrluring the war. (Signed) Nicholas. The references to the Orand IJukes bravery as a soldier and to the confidence with which ho had inspirerl tho country and tho army were as well placed as Uiey were gracious ; for h<- liarl conducted the inevitable retirement 124—2 246 77//<; TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR.
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PRIESTS SPRINKLING RUSSIAN TROOPS WITH HOLY WATER. of hisjarmios from position to position, throughweary months, with raro skill and fortitude,and it was no ordinary achievement to havekept up as he did the discipline and the con-fidence of all, and to hand over an unbrokenarmy at the end. Of even more interest,however, from the point of view of the Armeniancommand, was the admission that the anxietiesof the western campaign had during the summerdi\erted the attention of the liigher authoritiesfrom the situation on the southern front—that is to say, in the Caucasus. There had, aswe have seen, been no lack of dash and energyin the local command in that quarter, butthere was evidently no one at Tiflis, the seatof the provincial army administration, withsufficient influence and vigour to make hisdemands heard at the War ^Ministry in Petro-grad. The Grand Duke Nicholas, both as anImperial Prince and as a soldier of forty yearsexperience, who had held the highest com-mands, was in a very

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