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Show rEW AN AM AS CLUB The Ananias club of Russia is a much more efficient organization than the one which was created by our esteemed fellow citizen Theodore Roosevelt Far soaring imagination and vivid phrase ip ology the Petrograd correspondent takes the palm Altnough it is difficult to conjecture just what Iras been accomplished by the Eussians in the operations aronnd Lemberg and Lubl n it beems certa n that the Austnans have been defeated and forced to ret re "Nearly three weeks ago the Petrograd correspondent began to p le superlt veg upon super lat ves in order to describe what was happen ng to the unfortunate Austrlans The memory balks at recall ng all of tl e terr tying d sastcrs wh ch the cor respondents infl cted upon the us tr ans during a tattle that lasted about three weeks Two weeks ago the cor respondent-) began to les r bo tho ttcr ann bil.it on of the Austr ans One day the Kuss ans wen ppo d to rcnetrate the Austr an enter and d do the arm c tLe ncit day the Austr an cen ter was intact and the left w ng had been turned the next day the left wing r and center were ntact and the right -v mng had been turned the next day both wngs were ntact and the Aus 4 trians had been surrounded the next day the Austnans had been driven nto marshes and the Euss ans had to p 11 then out of tho mud w th ropes the next lay the ustr ans were trapped in a gorgo and the czar s art lie y f lied the gorge with dead An Aust an gen eral on a peak near by observed the catastrophe to h s troors through r binoculars and then blew out his brains Meant mo tho Bussians had captured 200 00 J pr sonors A day or two later r forgctt nt, the r former claims tbey as serted that tho nuuber wai 100 00 At odo t mo tbey cla mcd that thoy hal capture! 10 JO cannon and lator presumed that 400 would be a ffic ont to show the extent of tho v ctory 1 nally one of the Ictrograd correspondents far outstrrpnt hs rotnpet tors declared that al ugrrel th t tho A strlan do feat was the most crush ng n tho his tory of th worl 1 It now appears that tho Austr an ar es are nta t a 1 are retiring in fairly goo I orl r to a new 1 ne of lc fernj iho mag nat o i of. the I otr grad corresfonde ts howevor scum to b tr no b gns I oxhii st n an 1 some 1 u f Ml J llll h nl p r w V A hnn i ua on a d t at n an o o t o h n a r n t lc |