his army, General Sievers, to cut a way out for
the encircled four divisions by means of those parts of his army which
remained to him after escaping over the Bobr to Grodno failed with
extremely heavy losses."

Summarizing the results of the entire battle in an announcement of the
22d of February, the German Great Headquarters said: "The pursuit
after the winter battle in Mazurian Land is ended. In cleaning up the
forests to the northwest of Grodno, and in the battles reported during
the last few days in the region of the Bobr and the Narew, there have
been captured to date one commanding general, two division commanders,
four other generals, and in the neighborhood of 40,000 men,
seventy-five cannon, a quantity of machine guns, whose number is not
yet determined, and much other war material.

"The total booty of the winter battle in Mazurian Land, therefore, up
to to-day rises to seven generals, more than 100,000 men, more than
150 cannon, and material of all sorts, inclusive of machine guns,
which cannot yet be approximately estimated. Heavy guns and ammunition
were in many cases buried by the enemy or sunk in the lakes; thus
eight heavy guns were yesterday dug out or hauled out of the water
near Loetzen and Lake Widmin.

"The Tenth Russian Army of General Baron Sievers may, therefore, now
be considered as completely annihilated."

This summary was corrected in a later announcement, which stated that
the number of guns taken as booty in the pursuit after the winter
battle in Mazurian Land had risen to 300, including eighteen heavy
guns. This was published on the 23d of February. In an announcement of
the 26th of February the Great Headquarters amplified its account of
the victory with this statement:

"In the Russian official report the extent of the disaster in the
winter battle of Mazurian Land is either concealed or an attempt is
made to obscure it. It is unnecessary to go further into these
denials. As evidence of the extent of the defeat, the following list
of the positions held by the captured generals, however, may serve:

"Of the Twentieth Army Corps: the commanding general, the commander of
the artillery, the commander of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Infantry Divisions, and of the First Brigade of Infantry of the
Twenty-ninth Infantry Division. The commander of this latter division
succumbed to his wounds soon after being made prisoner.

"Of the Third Army Corps: the commander of the Twenty-sev