The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-03-04
tHy Karl II. Won weisand)

With the German Army at Suwal-
XII, Russia, Feb. 19.-(By automobile
courier to Insterburg. East Prussia,
thence via Berlin and London, Feb.
24.)-Kaiser Wilhelm was on the ac-
tual firing line when Won Hindenburg
swept the Russians out of Prussia.
He sped into Lyck thirty minutes af-
ter the Germans, at a heavy loss, had
stormed the city. While his troops
we're rounding up Russians still hid
ing in houses there, the kaiser ad-
dressed his soldiers in the market
square. giving vent to bitter words
over what he termed the senseless
destruction of property by the czar's
troops.
The kaiser was with his men when
they took WoszeZellen, near Lyck, by
bayonet His staff officers could
hardly restrain him from taking part
in the fighting. 1t was impossible
for them to keep him out of imme-
date danger.
The kaiser's entrance into Lyck
teemed with the dramatic. 1t was as
IL his arrival had been perfectly
timed as the climax to the third great
scene of triumph for German arms in
the eastern theater of war.
His big automobile rushed into the
East Prussian city Just as the cars
armies. after four days of desperate.
bloody resistance. began fleeing the
town.
Before the emperor's eyes, Won Hin
denburg and Won Ludendorf deliver
ed one of the mightiest smashes of
the war, once more clearing German
soil of Russians. The tenth Rus
sian army under General Sievers,
comprising eleven divisions of 1885,
900 men, was two-thirds captured or
annihilated.
Won Hindenburgs mighty machine
swept through East Prussia with start
ling verocity, sending the Slav's
scurrying in retreat. The Russian
tenth army that since last October
had occupied the narrow strip II
East Prussia. extending from norti
Of Gumbinnen. southwark to Drake
men and below Johannesburg, was
rolled out of Germany, crushed and
disastrously beaten as the result Of
desperate battling east and south
of the Mazurian lakes.
Beginning at Darkehmen, l have
been with the German army for the
last six days, following the retreat
ing Russians. From Goldap. south ol
Lyck, their retreat became panicky
This was evident by the abandoned
equipment, the stranded automobiles
and the countless bodies of Russian
dead. The character of the battle
ground and the roadways over which
this great conflict was waged is best
illustrated by the fact that we made
less than 80 miles day as we moved
southwark. Our automobile frequent
ly stuck in huge snowdrifts.
For four days there was desperate
fighting at Lyck. fifteen miles inside
the Prussian frontier. There the Rus
slams made a final stand. The city
was defended by the Third Siberian
corps, reputed to be the best fighters
in the Russian army. The stand
they made at Lyck did honor to their
fame as soldiers. The city was TAX
en- by storm only after the Germans
had suffered heavy losses. But the
brilliant defense OF the Siberians en-
abled part OF tie cars beaten armies
to escape over two roads leading out
OF Prussia through the swamps tc
Augustof and Suwalki.
While this onslaught was in pro
gress. the kaiser's northern army
forming the German left wing. was
advancing by forced marches to ef.
feet junction with the central army.
The third German army on the right
wing was swinging in from the south
oyer Craiemo. squeezing In the Rus
sian left
Despite the most tremendous ef
forts and the unprecedented endur
ance OF the German troops in making
forced marches through snow-storma
and vast stretches of marshes and
swamps, the attempt completely tr
surround the Russian army. as evident
Iy planned. did not wholly succeed
Fully third of the Russians got past
: Augustof before the Germans could
eloee up the gnp.
But yesterday when left the army