The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-10-22

E1IOoL uS6ldu dIu1y III
Russia on Sept. 10 let me have the
folloaing 0fficial reports and letters
coneeEningsE ossack atrocities in East
Prussia:
"Ya. the officssof the Army Com
marffer-in- Chief:
Two days after the battle near
ZOr0thowo IL met ON the road Gutt-l
stadt4Seeburg a troop-of u recruits.
about. twenty-one men, who had
beennaurprised by Cossacks the prey.
fous day. ThesC essacks had chopped
off iefther one foot or one hand OF
eachdrecruit! and LETT them In that
state1lying on the9road, One of our
genaTmes who accompanied the rel
cruiti was. lying on the road fettered
in sach a manner that he had to
kneA with his hands bound behind
his back. Hissears and nose were cut
OF. The majority of these poor. multi
ated creatures were still alive. l had
civilians from Guttstadt fetch carts
and wagons to bring them to that
place; since my duties, unfortunately, 1
left1me no time to look after these
poor plen further.
(MgnedJ Won Tiedemann,
"Mirst lieutenant. OF the Reserve,
Fifth Cuirassier Regiment"
~ s III.
"Ap officer of u General Staff
reports that he has himself encoun-
tereRFa captive Russian officer who
hads AZ woman's bloody finger with a
ring Sn 1t in his pocket. For some
dayssVe had heard. that the Russians
had hmmitted an assault on a wo-
man& y rife pit. murdered her and
cutoff her ring finger with a wedding
ring son It,. This report is therefore
confirmed. The Russian officer inn
medEte{t utter the discovery was
set minority our infurfated men and.
was Beaten to death They "felt that
sucmEa monster did not deserve a
Duli's" n.
.DA Sept. 10 the Russians shot
down three OF their own aviators at
Benkheim: After this last piece of
idtaey their retreat turned into
II .,..s ". I'LL,
Ttivate August Kurtz, Fifth
Company Reserve Infantry, Nine
teehth Regiment, and Private Her
mann, Fanseweh, First Company. One
Hwudred and F%ifty-second Infantry,
solesinly' affirm, in the absence of a
notafy who could take their oath.
that Ii the forest near. Grodtken they
havEseen with their own eyes twenty
dead bodies of women with their
bodies cut open"
III. 81 thfEt NrtflE ftAF - W. aNfH ar .r+t .t4NN
IN received an order from His Elk
cellehcy the General In Command OF
the Eleventh Army Corps and his
Acting Chiefsof STAFF to report to the
CONFERENCE.-The Chief OF the army that
q number >of women and children
havsa. been carried OF from Stallus
poafInen by the Russians and that a
nuimhaf Of children had their hands
hackedsof f by Cossacks.
{Sign4dJ' "De La Croix, ss
'isCaptain Of Reserve Cavalry"
THegeneral tenor. Of these official
repprtHs has, been confirmed by con-
ver1titns With many stricken in.
habitants of East Prussia. For in
stanntSssthe following from Freiherr
Won Jansen, owner of an old castle
neaxs Gerdauen In East Prussia:
WE are making war not with HUI.
MANI beings but with wild beasts
Getdauen, our little town OF form
erlWk3 3, 500 iphabitants.sssnow exists
oniYsin name. Everything in 1t hal
besHH burnt down and lies in ashes
Notta. single house wzs spared; only
q feE frightened people, q couple o
worried, weeping women, who wall
sAllIfs lost NOtAs crust Of bread Il
left.s'
TAe.read from Gerdauen to Nordel
buM. which isle Kilometres long
can Ne designa4sdsasse street Of mis-
ery.WEvefytnfng b destroyed. N,
hom4s mo cottage. no small farm
no Village wa spared. Everything Il
ruin444burnt down The beautitgu