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Show M RUSSIANS BOUND FOR H THE TRENCHES. M A' dispatch from Lyons, Franco. H ' timed 12.40 p. m.. today, records the I passing through that city of the Rus- H slan troops which arrived at Mar- H scilles, Thursday H Five hundred soldiers to a train, H would call for 100 trains to handle H ' 50.000. Running five minutes apart, H the trains would have been eight H hours in passing Lyons. The message H does not disclose any such extensive fl movement. H Lyons is 170 miles north of Mar- H sellles on a line of railroad leading H directly to Verdun- The Russians evl- H dently are intended for the trenches around the shell-swept city The H haste with which they are being H thrown into the conflict indicates dire H necessity and once more prompts the H question as to the number of British M troops in France. |