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Show RUSSIAN PRISONER MAY BECOME RICH Special Cable to The Tribune. VIENNA, Oct. 9. One of the Russia prisoners in a camp at Beichenberg, Bohemia, Dr. Ivan Perschikow of Odessa Odes-sa has good prospects to become a verv rich man as soon as the war ends. The grisoner is a chemist and artillory of-cer of-cer of the Russian reserve. When he was brought to Reichenberg. after his capture last winter, he met an Austrian physician who had been his chum during his college days at the universities uni-versities of Leipzig and Vienna. With the aid of his rriend, who is chief surgeon sur-geon of the prison hospital, he received permission to fix up a little laboratory and to ' do research and experimental work. He has now made a discovery which promises to revolutionize a certain cer-tain industry. The details of his invention inven-tion are kept a secret until he can obtain ob-tain patents, but experts whom he has taken into his confidence unanimously declare that there are millions in his discovery. |