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Show TWO MILLIONS j ARE IN RETREAT! I Eleventh, Seventh and Eighth! Russian Armies Are Steadily I. Marching Rearward. SITUATION IS CRITICAL Germans Straining Every Effort Ef-fort to Capture Eighth Cavalry Cav-alry Strong Pursuit. LONDON, July 31 A dispatch to the Post from Petrograd referring to the Russian retreat in Galicia says it is conservatively estimated that more than 2,000,000 Russian troops are steadily marching rearward These constitute' the Eleventh and Seventh armies . with their reserves. The Eighth army, which is largely cavalry and not Included in the foregoing figures, fig-ures, also is retreating and its posi- tion, says the correspondent, is ex-' tremely critical. The Germans are straining every effort to capture , it I while following up the Eleventh and i Seventh armies, and it looks as if the Eighth army might be caught in a bag. |