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Show RUSSIAN SOLDIERS LAND IH ELGII FIGHTING HAS BEEN ON GIGANTIC SCALE, AUSTRIANS BEING REPULSED, RE-PULSED, SAY THE ALLIES. Russian Army of 72,000 Men Landed at Aberdeen, Scotland, and Conveyed Con-veyed Across Country on Special Trains to Transports. Tho Husslan embassy at WnBhing-ton WnBhing-ton hns received nn official report from St. Petersburg setting forth that Husslan troops aro triumphantly marching on Lemburg, repulsing tho Austrlans nil along tho line. Tho lighting Iiob been on n gigantic scale, 300,000 Husslans being engaged against 000,000 Austrlnna. "If nil Indications do not fall," tho report from tho HusBlan capital continues, con-tinues, "the Husslans will be definitely victorious and as n result the roads to Vienna and Herlln will bo open to the Husslan armies."' In n dispatch from tho Husslan capital, cap-ital, tho correspondent of tho Ixmdon Times quotes tno message 01 urunii Duke Nicholas to the emperor on the Husslan victory In Gallcla as follows: "I am happy to gladden your majesty maj-esty with news of tho victory won by the nrmy of General Hussky. After seven days of Interrupted fighting, the Austrlans aro retreating In complcto disorder. In some caBes thoy are running run-ning away and abandoning their gunB, rllles, artillery, packs und baggage trains. "Prior to this decisive battle, Gon-ernl Gon-ernl Hussky'3 army captured in tho courso of tho seven days twenty-four guns, n multitude of firearms and a great number of machine guns." A Husslan army of 72,000 men, transported from Archangel, Itussla, was lauded at Aberdeen, on the cast coast of Scotland, on August 27, and conveyed on special trains to Harwich, Har-wich, Grimsby nnd Dover, whero transports were waiting to tako them to Ostcnd In Uelglum, according to officers nnd passengers of tho Cunard liner Mnurctantn, which reached New York from Liverpool. Kvery precaution wob taken by tho English nnd Husslan military authorities, author-ities, persons on tho Mnurctanla snld, to keep the fuel that foreign soldlcrB wero being transported to England irom becoming known, and tho service ser-vice on tho east coast railway lines was suspended during tho seventeen hours tho troop trains wero on their Journey. It was generally believed by thosu on tho Mnurctanla who mndo theso statements that the Husslans would bo Joined nt Ostend by Hrltlsh marines waiting thcro to rcceivo them and that the combined forces would co-operate with the llelglan army at Antwerp. |