The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-13
EVEN WARSAW DOES
 NOT MEAN VICTORY
VON HINDENBURG TELLS HOW MlO-WlNTER CAMPAIGN IN 20.
 LAND HAS BEEN HARD.
Claims That the Falling of Lodz Was
 the Turning Point in the Campaign
 and Germans Are Most sanguinary.

German Army Headquarters, Posen
 Dec. 19. Delayed in Transmission Via London-"Even the occupation of Warsaw and cf the Vismla line would by no means signify the end Of the campaign, The Russians. with their immense territory, can fall back indefinitely Defeated at Warsaw they can fall back on Kiev, from Kiev on Moscow, and eventually even on Nladivostok. Of course, We cannot follow that far"
 Thus spoke Germany's popular hero. Field Marshal Von Hendenburg to the Associated Press in the course of a four hours conversation today. He explained how the mid-wimter Poland campaign il which the Russian ad.' vance was checked and rolled back. had involved frightful blood letting Not since the days of the battle of Tannenberg and the retreat of the Russian General Relnenkampf's army from the iMazurian lake did the Rus sians lose so heavily as in the san guinary fighting around Wloclawek, kutnO LodZ and LowicZ said the field marshal He added that at least l4 ,00o Russians had been killed or wounded since November l3, and that 10000 other Russians had been made prisoner. The contest, accord ing to Von Hindenburg, had been pro ceeding everywhere favorably to the | 4 nI tria F1I | of Lodz and the commen cement of the Russial retreat Yet. Field Mar. shal Von Hindenburg declared that all the fight had not been taken out of the Russians
 Answering questions, Von Hindea- burg said:
 | The fall of I-o1z was the turn ng point in the present campaign. The Russians fought desperately for pos session of this city, on which the cen ter of their line rested The Russian line was bent. not broken. in this bat tie. The Russian leader, like wise man, did not wait for that. but when he saw how affairs were going, with. drew.
 "The battle was the most bitter and sanguinary of this war. the Russ an | Killed and wounded far exceeding tte figures at Tannenburg The dead lay in heaps on the battlefield. There were SIS bodies on one small hill"
 The mention of Tannenburg evoked the comment that little was known of this great battle. Von Hindenburg then took a pencil and paper and drew a rough sketch map of the bat tie.
 Our army he said, was drawn up to the north of the Mazurian lakes negion, here" Then he sketched the East Prussian frontier and the post tion of the troops to the north and south of the line
 When | took command the field marshal continued. the order already had been given 70 retire The Rus sian army under Samsonoff had mov. ed in. We withdrew our troops be- fore Rennenkamprs army and swulg them around to the right and rear in this fashion. The corps from the extreme left | sent around by the railroads, others had to nave by fore | ed marches.
 Had Rennelkampf followed, we should have had to turn and face him But he did not move from his en- trenchments and so we marched in here. and here, and here (drawiag a series of arrows in a circle which l pointed toward the dooed SamsonofD until we had them completely sur. rounded Without Rennenkempfs i'm