The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-25
Terrible Losses In East Prussia
Admitted, But Counter Move
Is Said to Have Been
Inaugurated.
RECEIVE REINFORCEMENTS
Petrograd Staff Attributes Won
Hindenburg's Great Victory
to Inability to Move Up
Reserve Forces.

Berlin, Via Londonl, Feb. a.
The German official statement is
sued today that the
captures in the battle Of the Ma
zurian lakes district Of east Prus-
STA have been increased to seven
generals and more than 100000
men. The pieces Of cannon taken
numbered $50.
London. Feb. 23.-The loss Of almost
an entire army corps in the recent re-
!reat from East Prussia is admitted oy
the Russian general staff In It's YER
sion of the German victory. or this
corps, it is said. only broken and disor-
SaniZed portions escaped. The success
Of the Germans is attributed to the
overwhelming number of their troops
and their superior transportation facil-
tiles.
Unofficial reports from P~etrograd
say that the main Russian army sue
reeded in escaping from the German
trap and has In turn taken he often
sive. This is c~orroborated in part by
the Russian staff, which states that
when h ~retreating army reached the
positions designated by the command
ers. a stand was made and th9 Ger
mans were repulsed with heavy losses.
Counter Move Begun.
A Petrograd dispatch to the Times
says that the Russian counter move to
the German advance from East Prus-
STA has begun along a front Of 100 miles
TO the north OF the Bohr n Narew
rivers. Reinforcements have been re-
ceiVed.
The crushing blow which Germany
hoped to deliver against the Russians
IN east Prussia has fallen short, ac-
eording to teIe, rams from the Daily
Nails correspondent from Petrograd.
The Russians nave extricated their
main body from the German pincers,"
Jays the dispatch, a the Germans,
instead of attacking, are being at
lacked. Russian reinforcementS are ar
irving constantly in large numbers.
"A fierce attack in the DIRECTION, OF
LomZa compelled h Germans to bring
troops from the north and abandon for
the moment their advantage toward
the River Niemen, where only their
cavalry is operating in small bodies
fortress Of Novo Georgiewak n
tinues, but less energetically. All
along the line. in fact there is notice
able slackening Of efforts"
Big Battle at ossowets.
The German forces have been badly
beaten at the fortress Of Ossowetz, &c
miles northeast Of LOmza, in Russian
Poland, after a stubborn artillery bat
tie, according to a telegram from the
Russian general staff to a high per-
sonage in Petrograd. The Germans are
/, reported to ave suffered heavy losses
and are TO have retreated to the east
Prussia frontier.
Fighting in the C%arpatnian mountains
still is being f~iercely prosecuted by the
Russian Austro-German forces, but ap-
parently without decisive results, fol
either side. These mountain passes arc
! now recognized by army men as form
ing the most difficult section Of the
long eastern battle front and the i'm,
preston is growing among military OBJ
servers in London that the other move
ments of both the Russians and the
Germans aEe merely s~trategical opera,
tons designed to affect the result OF
the desperate struggle at the gateway
to Hungary.
The French claim officially not only
to have repulSed the German counter
attacks in the Champagne region. but
to nave captured an entire section OF
German trenches, to the north and cas-
Of the foods taken the day before.
At the eastern end of the western
front the Germans have moved for
ward on the Alsatian flank Of the Vos-
ges mountains in the region to the west
OF holman.