The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-02-25
RUSSIANS REPORT
RETREAT|NG ARMY
HAS FACED ABOUT
Terrible Losses In East Prussia
Admitted, But Counter Move
Is Said to Have Been
.. Inauqurated.
RECEIVE REINFORCEMENTS
Petrograd Staff Attributes Won
Hindenburg's Great Victory
to Inability to Move Up
Reserve Forces.

Berlin. Via London), Feb. 23.-
The German official statement is
sued today announces 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
M entire army corps in the recent re-
treat from East Prussia is admitted by
the Russian general staff in its YER
sion of the German victory. OF this
corps, it is said, only broker and disor-
ganized portions escaped. The success
of the Germans is attributed to h
overwhelming number of their troops
and their superior transportation facil-
tiles.
Unofficial reports from Petrograd
say that the main Russian army sue
ceeded in escaping from the German
trap and has in turn taken the often
sive. This is corroborated i'll part by
the Russian staff, which states that
when the retreating army reached the
positions designated by the command
ers, a stand was made and the Ger
a. were IepulScu WITH 1lGdNE lUSScS.
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 and Narew
rivers. RelnforcementS have been re-
ceived.
The crushing blow which Germany
hoped to deliver against the Russians
IN east Pr11SSin. has fo11oo chnt,f 40
cordlng to kilograms from the Daily
Mails correspondent from P~etrograd.
Inc russians have eXtricated their
main body from the German pincers,"
says the dispatch, and 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 the 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.
Inc German movement toward the
fortress of Novo Georgiewak con-
tlnues, 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, 20
miles northeast of Lomza, in Russian
Poland, after a stubborn artillery Dat
tie, according to a telegram from the
Russian general staff to a high per-
sonage in Petrograd. The Germans are
reported to have suffered heavy losses
and are to have retreated to the east
Prussia frontier.
Fighting in the Carpathian mountains
still is being fiercely prosecuted by the
Russian Austro-German forces, but APP
parently without decisive results. for
either side. These mountain passes are
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 he
Germans are merely strategical 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 counte
attacks in the Champagne region. but
to have captured an entire section OF
herman trenches, to the north and east
OF the woods taken the day before.
AT the eastern end of the western
front the Germans have moved for
ward on the Alsatian flank of the Nos.
ges mountains in the region to the wes
of holman.