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Show RUSSIANS REPORT VICTORIES. Claim to Have Taken 428,000 Prisoners Prison-ers During the Year. London. More than 428,000 officers and men were taken prisoner by the Russians during the last year and 525 guns captured, according to Russian service organ, as quoted in a Central News dispatch from Petrograd. The Journal closes its review of the war operations during the year with the following approximate figures of men and booty taken: Officers, 8,770; men, 420,000; guns, 525; machine guns, 1,661; trench mortars mor-tars and mine throwers, 421. More than 80 per cent of the foregoing fore-going was yielded by the operations of General Brussiloff. |