The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-02-25
VICTORY OVER RUSS
TOLDPRUSS|AN DIET
Teutons Captured 100000 Men
and Seven Generals.
TENTH ARMY IS DESTROYED
Berlin Claims Defeat Of the Enemy In
East Prussia Ia, Overwhelming
More Than t5o Cannon
?. Taken. a4a-.

Berlin. (via I4ondon), Feb. 23.-
When the Prussian diet resumed its
sittings considerable enthusiasm was
displayed by the members of the
house in consequence Of the latest
dispatches telling Of the German vic
tory in the battle Of the MaZurian
lakes in East Prussia. The president
OF the diet read aloud the list of booty
and prisoners taken in battle, and the
deputies resolved to send congratu-
latory telegram to Emperor William.
100000 Russ Taken.
The German official statement an
nounced that the captures in the battle
Of the MaZurian lake district Of East
Prussia have been increased to seven
generals and more than one hundred
thousand men. The pieces of cannon
taken numbered $50.
The pursuit after the winter battle
in the Mazurian district has come to
an end" says the statement. During
the clearing up of operations north
west of Grodno and in the battles re-
ported during the last few days in the
Bohr and Narew district, one COM
handing general and four other gen.
erals and approximately 10000 men
have been taken prisoners up to the
present. Seventy-five cannon and
some machine guns, the actual num-
Der, OF which has not yet been as
certained. and much other war ma
terial has been captured.
Take Seven Generals; 100000 Men.
THE total booty taken in the winter
battle In the MaZurian district as Il
result OF these additions has been in
creased to date to seven generals,
more than one hundred thousand men,
more than one hundred and fifty can
non and quantities of other material
Of all descriptions, the amount Of
which cannot yet be approximately
estimated.
Cannon OF heavy caliber and am
munitlon frequently are buried by the
enemy or sunk in the lakes near Loot
zen and in the Widimmer sea. Eight
cannon Of heavy caliber were dug up
or pulled out of the water Sunday.
Think Tenth Army Destroyed.
THE tenth Russian army. under
General Baron Sievers, is considered
as having been destroyed.
New battles appear to be develop
ing at Grodno and to the north Of
Seichawolas. 1t is reported that the
battles to the northwest Of OssowetZ
and Lomza, as well as those at Prza-
synsz, are taking their regular course.
There is no news from Poland to
the south of the Vistula river"
Russia Explains Retreat.
Petrograd, Feb. 23.-Explanation Of
the Russian retirement from East
Prussia is contained in a communica-
ton given out by the general staff
The success Of the German coup is
attributed largely to the lack Of
strategic railways, which prevented
the Russians from concentrating with
necessary rapidly on our East PFus-
sian front forces indispensable to ward
off this drive of the enemy"
The general staff asserts that the
massing of German troops in East
Prussia was revealed to the Russians
February 4, but that the magnitude of
the concentration did not become
known until several days later.
Because of three conditions, it is
stated, withdrawal of the tenth Rus
sian army from East Prussia toward
the frontier was undertaken. This
was followed by further retirement
toward the Niemen and Bobr rivers,