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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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e Berlin newspapers were instructed to declarethat the decisive action which was to endthe war was to b- an irresistible blow atBritains highroad to India. Much effort was Flying Corps in Sinai and that of the Naval AirService, which observed by seaplane the garri-sons of Southern Syria, did not, however, dis-close any concentration of enemy troops for anattack on the Canal on a large scale. And what-ever plans the enemy may have made had soonafter to be put aside. The remarkable winteroffensive of Gen. Yudenitch in the moun-tains of Armenia, crowned by the captui-e ofErzerum in February, 1916, with losses to theTurks approximating 100,000 men and manygmis, completely altered the situation. Thegarrisons in Syria were gradually reduced imtilit was estimated that not more than 60,000soldiers wei-o left in that province. Gen. Sir Archibald Murray took over thecommand in Eastern Eg>^pt at the moment* Gen. Sir Archibald Murrays dispatch of June 1, 1U16. THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAB. 373
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