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Show ou GUNS REACH RUSSIA. Seattle .Jan 17. The Russian volunteer vol-unteer fleet steamer Novgorod, according ac-cording to advices received here today, to-day, arrived at Vladivostok yesterday with hie min and projectiles manu-factured manu-factured in Pennsylvania and shipped from Vancouver, li. C The Russian army is said to be In urgent need of tbesH slepe guns, which will be rushed to Poland. The Tamhor a sister ship of the Novgorod will sail Horn Vancouver for Vladivostok this week With a second sec-ond cargo of huge guns and shells The steamer Glenroy, now at Vancouver, Van-couver, will load at Seattle this week forty-five earloads of ammunition and automobiles for Vladivostok, presumably presum-ably for the Russian army MANY PRISONERS ARE TAKEN TO RUSSIA Petrograd, Jan, 17 A telegram from Minsk says that Austrian and German prisoners who passed through that town during the month of Derrm-ber Derrm-ber number 245 officers and lL',40o men of other grades. Altogether since the txginning of the war 1 0 G 2 German and Austrian officers and 107,260 men have passed through Minsk This Is independent of Kiev, where about 300,'tfO prison ers are registered. Vienna Report. Vienna, Jan 17, via London. Jan IS 1 L' 30 a m - -The war office made the following official statement tonight: to-night: 'The situation in I'olajid remains unchanged On the Dunajec river, in the district south of Tamow an artillery combat continued the entne day "In the Carpathians everything is quiet." |