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Show BULGARIANS HAVE HUNDREDS OF GUIS Will Join Austrians and Germans Against the Serbians. PETROGRAD, Oct. 9. via London, 1:40 p. m. The Russian general staff is watching with particular interest the concentration of German and Austrian troops in Bukowina, between the Dniester Dnies-ter and the Pruth. bnt has no facts positively posi-tively indicating an advance on Bessarabia. Bes-sarabia. Russian information is that the n-flw n-flw used by the Bulgarian army are made after the Mannlicher and Mauser systems, the patterns of the latter hazing haz-ing been captured from the Tuiks. The Buiuarians thus are abla 'o utilize both Austrian aud Turkish cartridges Further information is that the Bulgarians Bul-garians have 750 light fieUl guns, including in-cluding .100 75-iniIliineter Schneider cannon and 150 rapid-fircrs of the same caliber, taken from the Turks, besides 250 Krupp guns of millimeters and 150 Krupps of 75 millimeters, 40 rapid-fire rapid-fire 140-millimeter Schneider howitzers, 40 Krupps of the same caliber, 150-millimeter 150-millimeter Krupps, 30 rapid-fire 75-inil-limcter mountain guns and 40 rapid-fire Krupps of like caliber. It is estimated here that Bulgaria, Austria and Germany are to place immediately im-mediately helf a million bayonets in service against Serbia. According to information here, German officials have taken virtual direction nf all public institutions in-stitutions in the Sofia district. The Russian diplomatic staff from Sofia, So-fia, with the exception cf the minister, M. Savinsky, who remains in the Bulgarian Bul-garian capital becaus of illness arrived ar-rived at Bucharest, Rnupiiia. yesterday afternoon. The Bulgarian legation is due to leave Petrograd on Monday. Russian mounted rang ara are operating operat-ing boldly and successfully in the central cen-tral marshes of the Pinsk district, their operations reaching almost to Brest -Litovsk. A sudden night attack which they made on the staff of an Austrian detachment caused confusion in the Austrian ranks. The rangers have made a number of prisoners throughout .1 wide extent of territory, availing themselves of their superior knowledge of the li path:;. The most successful band has been dabbed bv the Germans the "marsh wolves. " This band includes Russians of the neighborhood, Poles, police officers and I Caucasian mountaineers. |