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Show ZZATTHE ENEMY heated aj,man ngth Urn?." k? De "'Te that tLi 0 an4 Ga ola- "ueSiS?"' aod thirteen hirtiTj"""10 The Hrrrui Cdw'hr nd land :J!rovljed no other active or reserve orpe have come from the west j PetrosTad believes that three addl Uonal army corps reached Von Hln I denberg In the middle of Decen her making nine n all received with In the month, and that the Germans have twent or twentv one army corps ln Poland and two v. 1th the A us trians but until the numbers and composition o all these army corps Is de nitely ascertained the precise char a er of he Austro-German opposl tlon canrot be determined E en f we allow them thlrtj eight arm corps and gTant them the full war effectiveness the total only comes to 1500 000 and the Russians should have no Insurmountable difficulty tn overthrowing such a force by superior numbers. In all probability the Austro German force Is much less numerous and Its losses undoubtedly have been severe. Unless all the Russian authorities are romanclne, the grand duke should en joy a numerical superiority of be tween a million and a million and a half For this reason we cannot suppose that the "Von Hlndenberg successes will be lasting Czar lsits Ho&pitals MOSCOW via Petrograd Dec 24 Era peror Nicholas and the empress, accom pa nied by their children, yesteMay visited a cumber of hosplta s in Moscow organ tzed and maintained by public and pri ate associations. Notable among these Is the union of all Russian zemstvos. In the evering the emperor who is in Moscow on his way back to Petrograd from the front In the Caucasus recei ed in the Kremlin palace Prince Lvoff chief commissioner of the union of all Rus s lan zetnstros and the mayor of Moscow M. Tche nokoff who s a eo commlss on er In chief of the union of Rush an clt es The commissioners ga e accounts of the activities of their reeppctrve unions and he emperor expressed himself as greatly satisfied w th their reports ROME Dc 9 ioo p. m CDelajed In transmission Reports having been cir collated here that Count Sergius Wltte, th Pussian statesman, was. leading a pa dflc party at the Russian court th count has telegraphed to this ity dny ng the statement. In his telegram he says At the beginning I dp ored the war thinking it was not lnevi ab e or In d spensable but s nee the war Is In prog reas any discussion regarding It wou d be full e , . Now that the war has assumed in Russia a popular character it can on y nd with a decisive victory for Russia |