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Show REPORT PERSISTS OF ROSS fililN PRICE Rome Hears That 250,000 of Czar's Soldiers Are Fighting in the West ROME ept S la London 1 4o p m According to the Rome Tr buna there Is In France today a total of 50 000 Russ an troops This newspaper a tributes Emperor Wil am s presence at Metz to th s con Icentration of the Rus lans The steamer Mauretania which reached ISew To k September 3 brought the first lepo ts to th s country of an extensi e land ng of Russ an troops at French ports The strict B itlsh censorsh p pre vented t e transm s on of th s inte i gence by cab e and for th s reason the news had to co e by word of mouth and by mail Letters from London dated A gust 27 corroborated the reports of t e Mau etan a passengers Fon the e two sources It Tvas srathered that Fngland had p aced more than 80 000 R s an troops In France by n cans or transports sent north of the Scandlna -Ian peninsula to Archange where the R ss ans em barked The movement was surrounded by the a eatest secrecy Accord ng to one er s on the Ru s ans were landed from the tra sports d rect at Be g an or Fre h ports Anot er sa d that t ey had been d sembarked at Aberdeen Scotland thence taken on spec a trains across Eng and and later conveved by sh p to Ostend |