Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-24
Graphic Narrative
 of Russian Defeat.
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Russian killed and wounded in the four days fighting are estimated at 90 900 men.
 Over 60,O0O Russians out of a total of 15G,000 engaged are prisoners in Ger man hands.
 This lighting has been described as the February campaign in East Prussia and North Poland and it is regarded here as a second Tannen- berg.
 Russians Sacrificed Men to Save Ar
 tiIIery.
 The Russians, composing the Tenth army were under the command of Gen eral Sievers. It is true that this com mander, by a skilful use of the rail- roads at his disposal and by the sac rifice at times of entire battalions in order to bring off a few guns, sue ceeded in saving a greater part of his artillery, but no fewer than 60,000 of his 150, 900 men are already count ed among the German prisoners while his killed and wounded in the four days battle with which these opera tions were inaugurated and the sub sequent running fights are estimated at 30000 men.
 10000 Russians Completely Surrounded
 On the streets of Suwalki there could be heard yesterday and today the sound of artillery from a swampy re- SlOn 10 the southeast where an lSO- | lated Russian division, perhaps 10000 1 men strong, has been completely sur rounded but still offering resistance. Several thousand more Russians prob T ably still remain in small scattered bands or are wandering as stra gglers | within the ring which the German i troops have now closed around the | woods and swamps between Suwalki AuguStowo and the German frontier but the capture of these wanderers and the fated division is expected here and is regarded as merely an incident | in a campaign to which this great | success is called only the prelude. | It is not believed among German | military men at Suwalli that Genera 1 Sievers will be able to bring one-fftt at Grono-a safety which may not be | of long duration.
 Abandoned Equipment.
 The above statement may seem tc be exaggerated. but correspondent l of The Associated Press, motoring | along the line of the Russian retreat over roads deep in snow and through 1 a desOlate and sWampy country, gain i ed an impression of complete defea- and demoraIization which scarcely car | be conveyed in words. Abandoned ! guns and automobiles, wrecked ant | overturned wagons, sledges and ann | munition caissons encountered the l way. HlneS, DldnhetS, knaDSackS anC 1 other equipment had been throwr away by the fleeing soldiers. Deaz l horses and an occa sionaI fallen sol dier were everywhere along the road. l side. These things showed the con. ditions under which the nasty retrea had been accomplished.
 Russians Burned Houses and KiIet
 Cattle.
 At street corners in Suwalki, Au. l guStowO, Lyck and other towns ar' great heaps of abandoned rifles anC | bayonets. Large bands of Russian prisoners. many of whom surrenderet without firing a shot, were encountered along the way. The Russians in re treat seem to have had only tim l enough to burn the houses on tn German side of the frontier and des troy the livestock which they wer l unable to drive away. This they dit | so thoroughly that in the seventeel mile ride from Lyck to the frontie 1 village of Prostken, for example, onl, one house with a roof on it was seen The Russian part of Prostl1en and tn Russian villages beyond have not beer l touched. For days past the correspon