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Show The Itussiaus Retreat lu Asia. London, 11. Military authorities ' regard the Russian retreat in Asia as either a disaster or a radical change of policy. Some wiseacres declare that this new line of defence is forced upon Russia by the course which England threatens to take, and that the czar has discovered a scheme in Persia to destroy hia army iu Armenia Arme-nia by cutting 00 its supplies and retreat. re-treat. It is proper to state that this theory is au invention of the war gossips of the Austrian capital, and is au excuse for a retreat which tomorrow's to-morrow's news may show to have been compelled by Turkish prowess. |