Arizona republican., 1915-02-24
Delayed Report Tells of Successes of German Forces Under Marshal Von Hindenburg After Hard Fighting
RUSSIAN REMNANTS
 NOW NEGLIGIBLE
Over Thirty Thousand Rus sians Killed and Wound ed and More Than Sixty Thousand Taken Prison CTS in Four Days Fight
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

SUWALKI. Feb 23.-Delayed)- German forces under Marshal Von Hlndenburg, by hard fighting and ex- traordinary marches, inflicted A strik- ing defeat on the Russians opposed to them in a recent battle in the Mag urian Lakes country. The Russian remnants are a negligible quantity in the operations now in progress.
 The Russians killed and wounded in four days fighting are estimated at 3OOOO. Over sixty thousand Rus sians, out of a total of 150,OOO en- gagged, are prisoners. On the streets of Suwalki on Saturday was heard the sound of artillery from the swampy region to the southeast. where an isolated Russian division of per- haps 10000 was completely surround l ed, but still offering resistence. At the street corners in Suwalki, Augus- towo, Lyck, and other towns lie great heaps of abandoned rifles and bay onets.
 The first phase of the campaign the phase resulting in the destruction of the Russian northern army may
 
 1 drive or surround, in which the men were the prey. Russians composing the Tenth Army were under the com mand of General Sievers It is true i this commander, by the skillful use of the railroad at his disposal, and by the sacrifice at times of entire bat talions in order to bring off few guns, succeeded in saving the greater part of his artillery
 Several thousand Russians probably remain in scattered bands, or are ! wandering as stragglers within the ring which the German troops have now closed around the woods and swamps between Suwalki Augustowo and the German frontier, but the cap- ture of these wanderers is expected here, and is regarded merely as an incident in the campaign to which this great success is called only a pre- Jude.
 It is not believed among military men that General Sievers will be able to bring one-fifth of his troops safely behind the fortress at Grodno, the safety of which may not be of long duration.
 The above statement may seem ex- aggerated, but the correspondent of the Associated Press, motoring along the line of the Russian retreat over roads deep with snow and through a desolate and swampy country gained an impression of complete defeat and demoralization which can scarcely be
 ,t, -Arlr ho and autos wrecked and overturned wagons sleds and ammunition caissons encountered the way. Rifles, blanke $. knapsacks and other equipment had been thrown away by the fleeing sol diers. Heads of horses and an oc casional fallen soldier were every where along the roadside.
 The Russians in retreat seem to have had time enough only to burn the houses on the German side of the frontier and destroy the livestock which they were unable to drive away. This they did thoroughly that ill the seventeen mile ride from Lyck to the frontier village of Prostken. for example, only one house with a roof on it was seen. The Russian part of Prostken and the Russian village be- yond have not been touched. For days past the correspondent has seen no living animals except those in the German columns and dogs and cats in villages. The bodies of sheep and : cattle killed by the Russians have been left to decay by the roadside.
 While the attention of the Russians was concentrated on the Warsaw line, Won Hindenburg quietly assem- bling an overwhelming force of East Prussia behind the Mazuria lakes, suddenly launched it in two columns against the unsuspecting General Sic
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