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A statement said to have come from Tiflis announces that

a Russian army of 50,000, under General Endokimoff, has been defeated at Chimkend, on its road to Taschkend, a general in com- mand of 150,000 Usbeks having attacked and routed it. The statement must be greatly exaggerated. What in the world is. General Endokimoff doing there with 50,000 men, or how supply- ing them? These stories are seldom mere inventions, and we pre- sume the truth is that a Russian general with 5,000 soldiers, and any number of savages on ponies, has been driven back by the mountaineers of the district, collected by an appeal to their religious feelings. The disaster will be a six months' check, though the conquest of the mountains may cost the Russian Government some money.

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