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TlIK ttEK: OMAHA. TIUrKSlAY, FRMUTATJY 1V1. mi. ROUT TOO TERRIBLE FOR WORD PICTURE Associated Press Correspondent, Mo toring Along Line .of Retreat, Declares Defeat Complete. THIRTY THOUSAND HAVE FALLEN SUWALKI, Poland, Feb. JO. (Via Berlin and London, Feb. 24. Th German forces under Marshal von Ilindenburg, by bard fighting and extraordinary marches, Inflicted a striking defeat on the Russians op posed to them in the recent ' battle of the Mazurian Lakes country. The Russian remnants are a negligible quantity in the operations now In progress. The Russians killed and wounded In the four days' fighting are estimated at 30,000 men. Over 60,000 Russians out of a total of 150,000 engaged are prisoners In German hands. A Second Tmfr. This fighting has been described as '.he February campaign In East Prussia and northern Poland, and It la regarded 1 ore as a second Tannenberg. The Russians composing the Tenth array were under command of General Flevera. It Is true that this commander, by a skillful use of the railroad at hia disposal, and by the sacrlfloe at times of entire battalions In order to bring off a few guns, succeeded In saving a greater part of his artillery, but no fewer than 10,000 of his 150,000 men are already counted among the German prisoners, while his killed and wounded In the four days' battle with which these operations were Inaugurated and the subsequent 'running fights are estimated at 30,000 men. On the streets of Suwalkl there could be heard yesterday and today the sound of guns from a swampy region to the southeast, where an isolated Russian di vision, perhaps 10,000 men strong, has been completely surrounded, but is still offering resistance. Their Capture Expected. Several thousand more Russians prob ably still remain In small scattered bands or are wandering as stragglers within the ring which the German troops have now dosed around the woods and swamps be tween Suwalkl, Augustowo, and the Ger man frontier, but the capture of these wanderero Is expected here and is re garded R merely an Incident In a cam paign to which this great success is called only the prelude. It is not believed among German mili tary men at Buwalkl that General Stovers .will be able to bring one-fifth of his troops safely behind the fortress at Grodno a safety which may not be of long duration. The foregoing statement may seem to be exaggerated, nut a correspondent of the Associated Press, motoring along the 'line of the Russian retreat, over roads deep in snow and through a desolated and swampy country, gained an impres sion of complete demoralization which scarcely can be conveyed in words. Kvldenee of Defeat. Abandoned guns and automobiles, wrecked and overturned wagons, sleds, and ammunition caissons encumbered the way." Rifles, blankets, knapsacks and , other equipment has 'been thrown away by the fleeing soldiers. Dead horses and ah occasional fallen soldier were every where along the roadside. These things howed the conditions under which the Jiaety retreat had been accomplished. At street corners' in Suwalkl, August owo, . Iyck and other towns are great beaps of abandoned rifles and bayonets. Large bands, of Russian prisoners, many of whom surrendered without firing a ahot, were encountered along the way. The Russians In retreat seem to hae had only time enough to burn the houses on the German side of the frontier and de stroy the live stock which they were un able to drive away. - This they did so thoroughly that in the seventecn-mile ride from Lyck to the frontier village of Prostken, for example, only one - house .with a roof on It was seen. Raaelaa Villages Vatoaetaed. The Russian part of Prostken and the Russian villages beyond have not been touched. For days past the correspondent has seen no living animals except those In the German columns und dogs and cats In villages. The bodies of sheep and cat tle killed by the Russians have been left to decay by tho roadside. The first phase of the campaign the phase resulting In the destruction of tho ' Russian northern army may be compared to a gigantic rabbit drive or surround, in which men wero the prey. While the attention of the Russians was concentrated on the Warsaw line. Field Marshal Von Hlndenburg, quietly -assembling , an overwhelming force in East Prussia behind the Mazurian lakes, sud denly launched It in two columns against the unsuspecting General Sieves. One column drove in from the south and threw back the - Russians who for months had been besieging the lake gate ways to East Prussia, and the other col umn swung around in wide circles to the eastward and to the southward, aiming to Join hands with the southern German columns and cut off the retreat of th retiring Russians. Moat of VH Bas;s;ed. The two wings of the drive closed to the east of Suwalkl and Augustowo, only a few hours too late to catch the entlro army. Most of the units of the Russian forces, however, were bagged. The delay which enab'.ed the remnant tq escape waa due to nature. The line of the advance of the southern column lay through belts of swamps which form a natural defense of the Russian front. It is almost without roads, and troops at tempting to use cross-country trails be came almost hopelessly bogged. The cor respondent saw columns of Infantry many of whqm had passed through mlrts more than ankle deep. ' Detachments of soldiers assisted In dragging the guns forward through the mud, but the prog; res was extremely slow. "Nature," said the commander of one of the German corps engaged, according to the correspondent, "always helped the Russians. Two days of hard frost and we should have had every man." The correspondent . accompanied the right wing of the German armies en gaged and it was to these troops that the heaviest part of the fighting fell. The left wing, swooping down from the north, . was called upon mostly for leg work, to accomplish marches of forty miles dally In pursuit of the Russians who fled after Ihe four days engagement on the Masu rian Lakes. Rattle f sise t'hreer. The battle In the south was of a unique Character. Again nature aided the Rus sians. The battle was fought in a driv ing' snowstorm, a fierce cutting wind driving the flakes Into the'faces and eyes Kaiser Says Cargo of Wilhclmina A of Be Used by Army , or Navy LONDON. Feb. J4.-W. U Brook ings, a nwmlxr of the firm of W. L. Green & Co.. commission merchants of St. Louis and owners of the canto on board the American ship WUhelmlna. reached london today from Berlin, having In his possession a declar ation from the German foreign office signed by Gottlieb Von Jagow, the for eign minister and attested by Jaincs,W. Gerard, the American ambassador to Germany, which pledged the German government not to assume control of the cargo of WUhelmlna, nor of any other vessels arriving from America, This declaration says such cargoes may be sold on the open market and will not be used by the army or the navy. The case f h WUhelmlna soon Is to come before a British prise court. It was loaded wtth a cargo of food prod ucts In New Tork and started for Ger man port. It was gathered In by the British marine authorities and the dis posal of Its eargo Is being watched with much Interest. The text of the -German declaration follows. "By motion of William L. Brooking, manager of the Green Commission company of St. Louis th imperial gov ernment makes the following declara tion: "The cargo of the steamer WUhel mlna, as well as the cargoes of vessels arriving In the future from America Ith food for Germany shall be subject neither to seizure nor to. selling right, nor to any , other government measure taken In connection with maximum of the advancing Germans until they could scarcely see. When the Germans came to grips with the Russians they found their rifles so covered with Ice and tho muzzlea so choked with snow that the weapons could not be fired. The troops, and these were young troops of one of the newly formed corps, were left only with their bayonets, but they stuck to their work despite heavy losses. The Russians were assuming the of fensive when artillery, which had hitherto been unable to get up through the for ests to the south of the Masurian Lakes, arrived Just In time and turned the scale. The troops ot this column pressed for ward along the fairway only a dozen miles wide, between the Masurian Lakes and the Russian frontier, driving the Russians before them, but they were forced to turn three times to beat off the flank attacks from the south. The Russian commander-in-chief made desperate efforts to come to the help of this army, whose plight by now was recognized. Large Tracts in , Italy Are Flooded ROME, Feb. 14. The floods In Italy continue and inundations are reported from parts of the country distant from Rome. .' The Tiber has been rising again and has now reached a stage of forty-five feet. The rains continue snd some parts of Rome and large tracts of the sur rounding country are .under water. There Is a heavy fall of snow In the mountains. Avalanches and snow thirteen feet deep are reported. Feel Blae or Jmmt .stapidf Sluggish bowels and torpid liver usually so together and It does not take long for constipation to produce a bad condition a feeling of languor or laszlness the "blues," headaches, palpitation or other malady. Indeed, when in this condition the system Invites more serious illness snd is not ablit to throw off disease. Foley Cathartic Tablets are a wholesome laxa tive and cleansing cathartic. They apt without Inconvenience, griping or sicken ing. Sold by all dealers everywhere. Ad vertisement. 1 if f Jesse 1324 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. prices, according to I hi' measures al ready Issued for hotne-sxown wheat. The cargo of the WtlhelmliiK as well as all future similar caries shall remain the property of the American owner and It can be sold by hlm at any place at the price asked. "Food coming in this manner to Ger many shall not be used for the army or the navy or for any other government purposes. The American owners of such cargoes shall be permitted to Impose upon buyers the obligation that this food be not used for the army or the navy or for other government purposes." In support of the contention that the German conservation regulations do not apply to Imported grains, Mr. Brooking said today' that Roumanian grains had been freely- dealt In since, the beginning of the war and that at all times the prices on them had ranged much higher than maximum prices for homo-grown grains. Mr. Brooking says some sntl-Amerlcan sentiment hae been created In Germany over the largo exportation of arms and ammunition to .Great Britain from America. ' "However." Mr Brooking said, "well Informed Germans fully realise that there Is no illfiallty In this. Ktlll they are anxious to see what stand the American government will take relative to the ex portation of foodstuffs 'to Germany, whether the United States will Insist upon Its legal rights when this favors Germany." The date for the hearing before a prise court on the WUhelmlna cargo has not been fixed. TWO MORE BRITISH SHIPS TORPEDOED; rfO TTTCJT7U TV)TTC!C!TXTfLJsoon "Ranled itself and started out to OJlIU10.LI.Lv lYllwklllJWttack the. mutineers. The troops were (Continued front Page One.) Clan MoNaughton was made In tho early morning of February 3, and It la feared that It was lost during the bad weather which prevailed at that time." ' Those A mo hk Crew. Amcng the crew ot the Clan McXaugh ton were twenty men of the Newfound land Royal naval -reserve. Twenty of ficers and W0 men were on boad the warship. The commander and tho prin cipal officers belonged to the Royal navy, the others to the Royal Navnl reserve. From the fact that there is no regular BritlHh cruiser named Clan McNaughton. and that there Is a merchant steamer of that name It appears that the merchent vessel has been made Into an auxiliary warship. The merchant steamer Clan McNaugh ton was built at Glasgow in lflll. Di -menslone, 4.9SS tons; gross length, 429 feet; beam, fifty-three feet. It has been In the Indian service, reaching London from Calcutta last November, i British Transport Sank. BERLIN, Feb. 24. (By Wireless to London.) Official announcement was made last night that tho British trans port, No. 192, was sunk by a German sub marine off Beachy Head at 4:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon. ' A dispatch last night from New Haven, England, stated that eighteen ot the crew of . the Cardiff steamer Rranksome Chine, a government collier, had landed there and announced the sinking of their vessel, either by a mine or a torpedo. In the English channel, twenty miles southeast of Beachy Head, about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. This probably Is the vessel to which the Ber lin announcement refers. Two Sailor o Whipple Drown. SAN DIPX30. Cal.. Feb. 24.-Robert Schwab and Ralph Cuttener, bailors of the destroyer Whipple, were drowned to day, when a small boat in which they were seated, was capxlzcd by the des troyer's propeller. The bodies wero sucked underneath the destroyer, but finally were recovered. u To Both ExDositions JL Daily from' March 1st v" . . .. , Only $17.50 extrt to travel in one direction via the Pacific Northwest. Choice of boat or rail between Portland and San Francisco. Berths and meals inclu ded on ships. ' s Free booklet, "California and the Expositions," contains valuable information necessary to plan the trip intelligently and economically. Send for it today. Union Pacific Standard Road of the West L. BEINDORFF, CP.&T.A. !3K FOUR HUNDRED KILLED JH MUTINY Half of Indian (Regiment at Singa pore Which Murdered Its Offi cers is Quickly Subdued. MEN WERE ENR0UTE TO EGYPT MANILA, Feb. 24. Four hundred members of tbe mutinous Indian regiments which revolted at tnga port on February 18. have been killed, as well as seven German pris oners from the detention camp who joined the natives when offered their freedom, according to reports of the uprising brought here ty passengers from Singapore. The mutineers are said to have killed all their officers save the colonel, and . then attacked civilians, several, of whom were killed, including one woman. The revolt began without warning. Half tho Fifth light Infantry of Rngalese on their way to Egypt, numbering- W. sud denly attacked and subdued the other half. Reports brought here are Id the effect that the rebellious troops killed none of the Hindu troops, who remained loyal, but did kill some of their officers. Including British and natives. They then attacked the houses of civilians, accord ing to the stories, killing men, but spar ing tho women and children, who sought refuge on the transport Nile, lying In the harbor. Many ReTolters Killed. The mutineers offered freedom to all Get mans In the detention camp who would Join them. Only seven of the pris oners accepted this proposal, the others preferring to remain where they were. The half regiment which remained loyal Joined by Europeans of all ages, who of fered their services as volunteers. In tho running fight which followed, four fifths of the revolting Indians are said to have been killed, and It Is believed only about 100 men remain In the country surrounding Singapore. The troops which were attempting to quell the' mutiny wero reinforced the following day by sailors landed from French, British snd Japanese warships. The revolt began at a time 'when there were no war vessels In port. Other reports received here from Sing apore are to the effect that thore are rumore of unrest among the natives of Rangoon, Colombo and Js'S. Official Report In London. LONDON, Fab. 23. 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