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Show PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. Kussia lasshifi: Troops on the Austrian Frontier Humors at Iterliu. Viexxa, Nov. 19. Well founded reports are current here that the Russian government govern-ment has ordered 40,0iK) troops dispatched to the Polish frontier and that the number of barrack huts in that region will be largely increased. In consequence it is reported that the Austrian government has ordered a large number of offleers and men dispatched to strengthen the frontier guards. London, Nov. 10. The StuMlanTs St. Petersburg correspondent says: ''Owing to the cooling of French enthusiasm for the Russian alliance, the Russian minister of war has abandoned the project of purchasing purchas-ing new rides and ordered the utmost dispatch dis-patch in filling the old Berlin cartridges with smokeless powder. Seasoned regiments in Finland will be transferred to the Austrian frontier, and recruits sent to Finland. These measures are presumed to be due to the Austrian emperor's alarmist speech. Berlin', Nov. 10. The German war office has ordered a large number of portable tents manufactured for the use of the Eastern, army corps, with a view to the protection of the troops from inclement weather in the event of war with Russia. |