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Show BERLIN REJOICES 0VERBIGVICT1Y Berlin via London. Dec. 17. 11:10 p. m The people of Berlin were aroused to enthusiasm todav bv the announcement of a great Austro-Ger-man victory over the Russians in Poland. Po-land. An official bulletin to this office was issued shortly after noon. Within half an hour extra editions Of the papers appeared and the whole t city literally flashed into bunting American visitors who a few days ago commented upon the nondisplav of flags, scarcely recognized the streets, which everywhere were gav with the German black, white and red and the Austrian orange and black, at many places Intertwined At the Reichstag, where a Red Cross meeting was in session, word was received re-ceived from the palace that the great est victory of the war had been won The schools will close tomorrow so that the children may assemble Jo celebrate the event. The first Intimation of the natui and extent of the Russian defeat was received here last evening and circu- lated in official quarters, but nothing was known of it generally until the official bulletin was published. It baa been understood that the Russians Rus-sians were in a precarious position, but it was not hinted that a decisive result was at hand The official bulletin bul-letin isbiied yesterday reported that the operations were "proceeding nor-mnlly," nor-mnlly," which phrase is the usual termination ter-mination of the official report. It is known now that thousands of Rus sians have been taken prisoners " oo |