enth Infantry
Division and the commander of the artillery and of the Second Infantry
Brigade of this division.

"Of the Fifty-third Reserve Division: the division commander and the
commander of the First Infantry Brigade.

"Of the First Siberian Cossack Division: a brigade commander."

This brought the total of Russian generals captured up to eleven.

This account of one of the greatest battles of the European War is
necessarily based to a large extent on reports of the Germans, owing
to the fact that material from this source is virtually the only
official account available of the operation as a whole. The Russian
General Staff has contented itself with the following announcement,
made public on February 21, 1915:

"When the Germans, after a series of extraordinary obstinate and
persistent attacks which caused them heavy losses, had recognized the
impossibility of pressing in our front on the left bank of the
Vistula, they turned at the end of January to the execution of a new
plan. After the creation of several new corps in the interior of the
country, and the bringing up of troops from their west front, the
Germans threw important forces into East Prussia. The transportation
of troops was made easier by the extraordinarily developed net of
railways which Germany has at its disposal.

"The task of the new troops sent to East Prussia was to defeat our
Tenth Army, which held strongly constructed positions along the
Angerapp. To assure the success of the undertaking the Germans brought
a portion of their forces from the Bzura and Rawka fronts to the right
bank of the Vistula. A movement of the Germans in East Prussia already
became noticeable on the 4th of February, 1915. But the extent of this
movement could only be recognized a few days later. As our leaders,
because of the lack of railroad lines, could not collect the necessary
forces on the East Prussian front with the necessary speed to meet the
hostile attack adequately, they decided to take back the
above-mentioned army of East Prussia to the border. In this movement
of the right wing the Tenth Army, which was pressed by heavy hostile
forces and threatened with being surrounded from the right, was forced
to make a rapid change of alignment in the direction of Kovno. In this
rapid movement a corps was separated from the rest of the army. The
other corps which continued the battle obstinately without
interruption, slowly drew back in the prescribed direction,