Evening star., 1915-02-25
BuIgakoff's Huge Army Utterly
Smashed by Germans,
Is Claim.
COMMANDER AND SIX
GENERALS PRISONERS
Remnants of Cars Annihilated
Right Wing Flees From
East Prussia.
BY HERBERT COREY AND ED.
WARD L. FOX.


wireless to Berlin and via Sayville to
New York. 1.-THE great Russian army
of 10000 has been utterly smashed
and the commander-in-chi Gen. Bull
gakoff, with his six living generals. is
prisoner in little house in this
squalid town, guarded by German SOL
diers. Eleven divisions of this, the
tenth Russian army, no fewer than
10000 or 100000 men. have been killed
or wounded, and the remnants of the
army are flying panic stricken in all
directions through the snowstorm that
envelops the whole country.
Right Wing Annihilated.
The Russian right wing has been an
initiated and Gen. Rusky's army no
longer exists. 1t has been one Of the
greatest German victories of the war,
and there are now indications that it
reaches the enormous total of Gen.
Won Hindenburg's defeat of the Russians
at Tannenberg. While thousands of
Russian prisoners were shuffling
through this dismal town last night.
utterly broken and discouraged, gray
army motor cars drew up in front of
Petrogradeski Prospect, No. 10, and
the cars officers in shaking forms of
gold and brown skunk between guards
into the house where their general was
commanders of the great army that
had been annihilated-generals. eolonels
and lesser officers-who had managed to
escape death in the rout Of their legions.
We sought out Gen. Gulgakoff to ask
an explanation of the destruction by
his troops in Goldap, in East Prussia.
but he had headache. and the Ger
man soldiers guarding him were SO
anxious to preserve his personal comfort
they would not arouse him. One general,
sharp featured, tawney muStached man
with cold. cruel, faded Eyes, tried to
tell us the story.
Battle Not Finished.
The battle is not yet finished. The
German drives continue. turning back
fresh Russian troops sent from the
fortress at Grodne. 1t is now impos-
sible to hold back the young German
soldiers. as they sweep on after the
flying Russians. The terrible cannon
aiding continues in our hearing. Great
German supply trains are being hur-
ried after the charging army across
the snow-swept Russian plains.
We went forth in a motor car through
the forest of Augustowe. following the
fighters. and got within 500 meters of
the battle. The bullets were barking
the trees about us. and we decided to
turn back lest Russians break through.
Horrors Of War Revealed.
The cruelty and horror of war are
shown in the grim game now going
on in the forest, where Russian fugi-
tives are being stalked as they run in
panic after their retreating regi-
ments. They are being chased through
miles and miles of forest in deep
snow. All about US on the trip were
corpses of Russians with the blood
still unfroZen in the snow.
Thousands of discarded rifles, KNAPP
sacks. sheepskin coats and many cais-
son shells in baskets were scattered
about the line of panic-stricken re-
treat.
1t was significant that while there
were burned and ruined towns all
through East Prussia. from which the
Russians had been driven, evidence of
this work topped at the border. In a
motor trip from Goldap, which was
looted and burned. there was no evil
dence of this work the moment we
crossed the Russian line.