Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 24, 1915, Page 3

NORWICH BULLE1:IN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1915 INSURANCE “IF IT'S INSURANCE, WE WRITE IT.” J. L. LATHROP & SONS, 28 Shetucket St, Norwich, Conn. I AMmmmMJH YOUR INSURANCE. too important a matter to "be with or postponed. See that policy does not lapse. are not insured, let r over with you, NOW. ISAAC S. JONES, Insurance and Real Estate Agent, Richards Building 91 Main Street It is Yyour att hid us talk the ~TBALTIG CHAMPS OF . Deciding Basketball Game Played With Taftville in Willi- mantic—Score 11 to 9,—Taftville Led the Score at the End of First Half, But Baltic Came Back Strong, Winning in Last Few Minutes of Play—Contest Bitterly i Fought From Start to Finish. . (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Willimantic, Feb. 23.—The deciding game in the basketball series between Taftville anq Baltic was played in the Valley street armory Tuesday evening and was one of the most exciting matches ever seen in this city. Both sides had a host of rooters, and the building was filled to capacity, while the rooting itself was of the most pronounced kind. Taftville had the Dbest of the argument in the first half, leading at its close by a score of 6 1-2 to 4, but Baltic came back strong in the second half, after their opponents had a five point lead and won out in the last few minutes of play by a score of 11 to 9 12. Higgins starred for the winners with four field bas- kets and four fouls, while Murphy scored’ the most points for the losers. The score gives but a slight indication, BEAR IN MIND when placing your INSURANCE for the coming year THE FACT_that during the last five however, of the closeness of the game, which was bitterly fought from start to finish, and showed some very pret- ears 92 Insurance Companies "Tg?‘f;&gm:;’?: Lot ave either failed, reinsured or | (7 & TAFTVILL quit; ToyrioH s s S Sar oo <.... Murphy THE FACT that no company can af- Right Forward, ford to sell Gold Dollars for 90 | Higgins ............... ... White cents or pay $1.20 for every Dol- Left Forward. lar taken in and MArIand s .. Shstes Paine THE FACT that we sell INDEMNITY enter, not a mere promise to pay. H. Cullen, Chappell .... Jackson B. P. LEARNED & CO. | Bieh ound . L . Connell, H. Lewis .......... Stanley Agency Established May, 1846. Left Guar s Goals—Higgins 4, 1 Marland Brown & Perkins, Atinme;at-la; Over Uncas Nat, Bank, Shetucket St. : jce stairway near to Thames National Bank. Telephone 3§-3. EDWIN W. HIGGINS Attorney-at-Law Corner Main and Shetucket Streets Whys They Want Baker. who has left base- the reaper and the said to be wavering willing to reconsider, ough, complied ages in batting and Mo “urdy, the for- runner, is think- 18 back to compete in ath- E; rd Universi- t with the ex- Taber Amer- e Br army Lannin will take his Red dence players south in This is a great on . Providence is mall town. thinks the Fed minors Providence because r ball then the In- In Hartford he saying he feared the Hartford and Why' the bunk? 30. Kinnon solid ternational was quoted international eld. provides for a The distance be called upon 73. 1 lows: New York, § 164; Boston, 10,621; I Pitisburgh, 12,995; < nmo, and St. Lofis running is_ at full 1 1 England. Lord Kitchene . turn out in great numbers. n is obvious. Harry Green, Marathon record holder, ral races the past month. the Fourth Reserves. athletics could be more making soldiers fit for f to ervice. ductive rd larney Drevfyss, president ofthe h National Leasue club, re- ounced that Joe Kelley, out- 1d been released to the In- of the American asso- it Clarence E. Berger, out- cen released to the Rich- the International league, omas Quigley, a pitcher, given his unconditional re- P Jolis cluk 1 Applegarth, the professional hampion, displayed a good the occasion of his recent r the title with Jack Donald- Manchester, Eng It was agreed e promoter of the race should ntage of the profits of the toward 2 fund for the Bel- TS, The promoters lost the venture, but Applegarth gam forward and donated und Donahue, a well known base- player and brother of the late Donahue was found dead in tly at Springfield, G. He in ill health for several Donahue started his baseball at Springfield, 0. with the ntral league in 1905. Later he was ed by the Boston Americans and » Newark, where he played two Afterward he played with Fort ind in the Three I league. He Chappell 1, Murphy 2, tanley 2, White 1. Higgins 4, Murph: 3, Paine 2, Goals from fouls, 1 EASTERN ASSOCIATION MUST PROVIDE BETER BASEBALL All Club Owners Lost Money Season, Last Federa] league or no Federal league, it is certain the BEastern association must brace up the coming season and provide better baseball else the clubs stand to lose considerable money. Ev- ery club owner in the association lost mcney last season and they make no bores about telling it. It was because of the poor article of ball provided. The public refused to support the clubs and the same public is waiting to see what improvement will be made next spring. Surely the same brand of ball as seen last season will cost the club owners a lot of money in the long run as it can’t be expected the public will fall for it. Conditions j can’'t be very rosy in the Eastern as- sociation for next season when some | of the club owners wanted the lea- igue to shut up for a season. That { shows conditions are pretty bad and i the owners are afraid of a losing { proposition in 1915. JESS WILLARD HAS Until Such Time as Jack Johnson Ap- pears in Juarez. | | El Paso. Texas, Feb. 23 Wil- lard, heavyweight fighter, had a dis- pute with his manager in a hotel lob- L. COUNTY by here today and thereafter an- nounced he would do no more training until Jack Johnson should appear at Juarez for the fight set for March 6 and now indefinitely postponed b cause of Johnson's non-arrival. Wil- lard said he feared that he might be- come stale. As to Johnson’s whereabouts, it was intimated that he might have sailed from Havana vesterday for the west coast of Mexico, perhaps for Manzan- illo, which town General Villa expects to capture soon. This would give him access to Juarez without passing through General Carranza’s lines. Should Johnson have taken this route, his best course would be across Guat- emala and it would occupy two weeks. TRAINING SEASON NEAR AT HAND Players’ Advance Guard Starts South Soon—Danny Murphy Leaves Sun- day. It seems just a day or two since we heard the echo of Hank Gowdy's home run smash in that world series battle, yet here we are right on the eve, we might say, of the 1915 base- ball season, What's that? The “no_training be- fore March 1st” rule? Sure there is such a rule. But rules. like éggs, are made to be broken. Laws, like auto- mobiles, can be dodged. And that's what the organized baseball folks are going to do. The “no training before March 1st rule was adopted b winter when they about that economy stuff. They were in a mood at that time where they would have hacked off a couple of their legs if someone had told them that such an action would result in economy. This rule was adopted by the magnates as a means ‘of saving in training camp bills. The magnates thought by the rule they had needed reform. But the managers didn’t. They howled. Most of the managers said that March 1st wasn't early enough to begin training. thermore someone arzued that American and National league clubs didn't into training until _ after March it would give the Feds chance to grab a lot of early pub- licity by sending their teams south during February. Then the magnates and word was passed that “rules is rules,” stand in your way too There is nothing in the wording of the new sule, as we interpret it8that bars a manager from sending his bat- were adopting accomplished a if the ist took a tumble along the line don't let rules much.” i is | tery men to some place south of Ma- fson and Dixon line two weeks or so before March 1, just so long as he doesn’t send the men to the regular camp, ecause there is no rule against this it is a fairly safe wager | that some of the pitchers and catch- ers will be working out in the south quite some time before March Danny Murphy of the Brooklyn Feds has received word to report at Brown Wells, Miss, and leaves this coming COMMERGIAL MARKET FLUCTUATED. Selling Movement Was Junctuated by Intervals of Extreme Dullness. New York, Feb. 23.—Professional selling. prompted mainly by further unfavorable foreign developments, pro- | voked fresh selling of securities on the resumption of operations today. There was a comparatively large ac- cumulation of orders over the double holiday, no inconsiderable part of which emenated from out-of-town sources, with an admixture of Europ- ean offerings. This latest phase of the situation was most noticable in the bond department, where numerous sales for “future delivery” at conces- sions were effected. The overhanging fear of internation- al complications was plainly reflect- ed in the several markets for exchange most of which were again demoraliz- ed and in favor of this country. Re- mittances to London did not decline to last week's low point, but exchange on Paris, Berlin, Rome and Geneva were quoted at unprecedented figures. The selling in this market began at the outset and was maintained, except for irregular periods of extreme dull- ness, for the greater part of the ses- sion. Many of the principal shares made their lowest prices for the cur- rent movement and a number of new minimums were made. Baltimore & Ohio_common and preferred, Seaboard Air Line preferred, Southern Railway preferred, New Haven and Chesapeake and Ohio were among the stocks to fall to latest established quotations. Most of the specialties, including the petroleums, motors and a score of dormant issues, fell from one to over five points. United States Steel was again steadiest of the speculative fa- vorities, despite the large overturn. Anthracite shares were weakest of the high priced railers, with a revival of rumors affecting stability. Almost the only encouraging news of the day came from the west, where general conditions pointed to an in- crease in business. This was offset, however, by another sharp drop in grains Weakness in the cotton mark- et accounted for the heaviness of southern transportation issues. Losses in some of the investment ‘bonds ranged from ome to two points with a larger volume of trading. To- tal sales (par value), aggregated $2,- 5,000. . S. government bonds were un- changed on call 100 Chic 30 C R I & 200 Kan 2800 Telug: 230 ¥ Ist 100 Rock I 100 Rumely 100 Rume 206 Seavord 0 Sears Rochn 6000 South Pacific 6100 Southem Ry 500 South. Ry m 125 Stand Milling 1600 Tenn. € 200 Texas & 700 Tesas Co. 700 Third Avenuc 500 Twin/ City R. T. 300 Under. Tepe 5 Union _Pacific 300 Union Pac. or 200 Tnited Clzar Ry Ins or S. Ruber 1 pr . . Steel 7. S. Steel pr 53400 Utah Copper 400 Wabash 400 Wabash pr 700 West Marsland 1000 West. Un Tel 2000 Westinghouse 843 100 Woolworth . a3 60 Wilys-Orland 52 Total sales 220,700 shares. COTTON. New York, Feb. 23.—Cotton futures STOCKS. Sales. 1300 Alzsks Gold M 13850 Amal._ Copper 2700 Am. Best Sugar 100 Am. B. S. & ¥ 3500 Am. Can. ........ 800 Am. Car & Frs. 200 Car & Fdry pr ...... 200 500 1000 200 100 2780 1150 1250 100 210 1100 1850 500 200 2200 S 25 Bult. & Ohio Dr 7800 Beth. Steel 500 Cal. Petrol pr 2200 Canada Pacific 1600 Central Leather 2400 Ches. & ‘Ohlo 220 Chic. Gt West 19 Chic. Gt W or 2300 C,, M. &St P. 100 C° M. &St Saturday with the advance guard. Danny reports that he is in excellent condition and his injured knee appears to be as strong as ever. NATIONAL AMATEUR RACQUET CHAMPIONSHIP Close Match Between L. Waterbury and H. E. Heckscher. New York, Feb. 23.—One of the best matches ever plaved at the New York Racquet and Tennis club was witness- ed there today when L. Waterbury and H, G. Heckscher, both members of the home club, met in the second round of play for the national amateur racquet championship. The play was clever all through and Waterbury’s victory was mainly due to his re- sourcefulness. After the fifth game had been set, Heckscher received a nasty cut on the back of his. head, being struck with the ball. Play was discontinued for a few minutes while the injury was attendad to, Heck- scher resumed with his head ban- daged. but although he played pluck- ily, he lost the game and the match. The scores: 10-15, 15-12, 8-15; 18-14, 18-16. In the other matches Stanley G. Mortimer, New York, defeated his clubmate, Greenville Clark, very han- dily in three straight games, 15-7, 7 15-3. The second round will be com- pleted tomorrow when C. C. Pell, York, plays G. A. Thorne, Ch: and W. Post, New York, meets J. C. Waterbury, another local player. FIRST GAME THIS SEASON. Thamesville Young Slippery Eels Baseball Team Defeated Polish A. C.—Score 8 to 5. The Young Slippery Eels of Thames- ville played their first game this sea- son with the Polish A. C. of Thames street, which the former won by a score of 8 to 5. Lessman the star short stop played an errorless game, also getting _on base every time he came to bat. Per- ringer pitched the first five inmings, allowing only one hit. The lineup was as follows: Mulcahy c, Perringer Powers 1b, F. Ulrich 2b, Diffley 3b, Lessman_ss, J. Ulrich r W. Clabb: J. Cook 1f. challenge any team in the vi cinity of Norwich urder the age of 1 Send all challenges by mail to Joseph Diffley, 18 Geer avenue, city. Heffelfinger May Assist Hinkey. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 23.—It was mi-officially announced here tonight that W. W. Heffelfinger, a former famous Yale football player. has been offered a contract to assist Head Coach Frank Hinkey, in the develop- ment of next fall's Blue eleven. Hef- felfinger will accept, it is believed, It is stated that he would devote his entire attention to coaching the line- men. Heffelfinger is regarded as one of the greatest of Yale's football play er: Walter Camp ga him a posi- tion as gzuard on his “All American team for all time.” Heffelfinger is at present in New Haven. coming here from Minneapolis a few days ago for a conference with Captain Wilson and Hinkey, All the World's Champions Have Signed. Boston, Feb, 23.—James Gaffney, president of the world’s champions Boston club of the XNational league, said that with the receipt today of the signed contract of Catcher Bert Whal- ing the club has the signature of every member. Mr. made no refer- ence to the contract of Bill James, the pitcher, except that the club would insist on the fulfiliment of its con- ditions. Army_Starts Baseball, Point, Y., Feb. liminary work the army team was begun toda squad of likely lookin: the call and reported uel Strang and Cadet Merrillat, the latter the capt of the army nine, for indoor work in the gymnasium The army has a hard schedule of 21 games. The annual clash with the navy will take place here on May 29. West —Pre- baseball when a big men answercd to Coach Sam- for Harvard Hockey Team Downed Yale. New ¥ Conn., Feb. 23 —Har- vard’'s hockey team made it two straight over Yale tonight, by defeat- ing the Blu fast. well played game, 3 to 1. The Crimson forced the rlay throughout, 1e score at the end of the first half was 2 to 1. Phillips scored two goals for Harvard, Capt. Sweeney made Yale's score. The third Harvard zoal was accidentally made by Yale from scrimmage. Can Debate as Well as Play Football. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 23.—Charles B E Harvard's famous foot- ball captain and drop kicker, was a successful competitor tonight in the preliminary trial of candidates for the debating teams which will meet Yale and Princetofs Fourteen candidates were chosen tonight. This number will be reduced by another trial. Princeton Tossers Getting Busy. Princeton, N. J., Feb. 23.—Nearly 50 candidates. including seven mem- bers of last vear's varsity, responded today to_the t call for the Prince- baseball team. Three other hold- ers of the “P” are expected to-report to Captain Greene and Coach Clarke within a few days Harvard Wins Fencing Bouts. Cambride, Mas 23— Harvard defeated Massachusetts Institute of Technology at fencing seven bouts to two tonight. YALE WILL TRY TO BREAK THE “HOODOO” Blue Baseball Prospects Are Stronger Than Ever. Yale will this year make a supreme effort to break the hoodo which, with annual record-breaking basebali ma- terial in the squad, has prevented the capture of a championship. The ad- ministration of Frank Quinby as coach has been marked by three yearly nines of exceptional strength and promise in the early games, but by disastrous fin- ishes of the season. Three different reasons have been assigned for the fail- ure to pluck a championship victory, Wwhich seemed in each of these three years almost firm in Yale's grasp. In 1912 Capt. Blossom wrenched an ankle just before Yale’s annual game in Princeton, epoiling Yale hopes. In 1913 the two pitchers, Gile and Brown, got stale and collapsed during the week of the final games with Prince- ton and Harvard. Last year “Long John” Reilly, Yale's wonderful third baseman, played through the cham- pionship matches so stale that he fail- ed to hit safely, although when in cor- dition he is the slugger of the team. By a strange turn in the wheel of fate, Yale has come back stronger than ever in her outlook for 1915. For 15 years Yale's baseball material had been the weakest of any of the eastern uni- versities. Coincident with the advent of Coach Quinby it began to be fully equal to that of any of Yale's rivals, and the undergraduate world is again picking up hope that the wonderful collection of playing ability may be converted finally into an intercollegiate championship. The two batting and fielding main- stays of the team have already been asked to name their terms by half a dozen major league nines. Each has been offered a salary of $5,000 a year to quit collegiate baseball and enter the professional field. With John Reil- 1y at third base and Harry Le Gore at shortstop, the Yale infield is expected to prove the strongest in the history of the university nines. Some of their undergraduate admirers declare that they regard these two pla: the strongest holders of these positions who have played together simce Jack Glasscock and Jerry Denny played side by side. Aside from this stellar pair, Yale will have three, and possibly four, of the strongest pitchers who ever wore the Eli uniform. It is uncertain whether “Pie” Way, the mainstay of the box last season, will be eligible again this vear. He is at present under the fac- ulty ban, but has a_chance to regain his standing in studies. He is the weakest of the. four leading candidates for pitcher. “FEDS” DECIDE ON NEWARK Kansas City Club to be Located at Harrison Oval—Plans Under Way. Although Pat Powers, who is the guardian of the floating Kansas City franchise of the Federal League, has repeatedly stated that he had not yet decided on either Newark or the Bronx for the location of the ciub, those close to Federal League affairs stated that the club would be placed in Harrison. just outside of Newark. It is stated that the deal for the Harrison site at Harrison Oval was closed last week. On Saturday it is known that Pow- ers, with C. B, Comstock, the architect who has designed all of the Federal League grand stands, and a prominent Newark contractor visited the site and that workmen were put on the job to make soundings for the foundations of the new park , The new park is on a site in Harri- son bounded on the east by Third street, on the west by Second street, running in a northerly direction to a point within 100 feet of Middlesex eet and extending 620 feet southward toward omerset and Hunterdon streets, giving the new park an area of 620 by 550 feet. These grounds, which cut across Harrison Oval, are intersected by Somerset and Hunterdon streets, so that Mr. Powers will appear Dbefore the Harrison town council at its next meeting and request that these streets be vacated within the boundaries of the park. It is under- stood that Architect Comstock is plan- ning only a temporary stand at this time with bleachers. The concrete and steel structure is_to be erected after the first season. The grand stand will be horseshoe shaped, and it is planned to_accommodate about 20,000 persons. nclair and Powers, who control the club, believe that with a good club Newark can be made a major league city and successfully defy the Interna- tioral league opposition there. The present grounds are nearer to Broad and Market streets, Newark, than Wei- denmeyer's Park, where the Interna- tionals play, and, although located in Harrison, are easily accessible to Ne arl;, West Hudson, Harrison, and lower New York. The field is a short dis- tance from the Fourth street station of the Pennsylvania railroad and the Harrison station of the Manhattan line, It is only two minutes’ ride from the Park Place station in Newark. The promoters believe that with Sunday games they will be able to attract crowds of 25,000 people. It is under- stood that Powers and Sinclair were anxious to keep the site of the park quiet until the Federal League meet- ing in Buffalo this week, when official notification will be made. 1 DIAMOND CHIPS. There is no room for a third big league, according to C. Mack. Nobody has claimed the pennant in the Eastern association yet. Larry Gardner feels that the Red Sox are due to win the pennant this year. Ed Walsh “looked as gocd as he ever did” when he left Chicago with the White Sox squad the other night. Yet Graphic Narrative of Russian Defeat. (Continued from Page QM) Russian killed and wounded in the four days' fighting are estimated at 20,000 men. Over 60,000 Russians out of a total of 150,000 engaged are prisoners in Ger- man hands. This fighting has been described as the February campaign in East Prussia_and North Polang and. it is regarded here as a second Tannen- berg. Russians Sacrificed Men to Save Ar- tillery. The Russians, composing the Tenth army were under the command of Gen- eral Sievers. It is true that this com- mander, by a skilful use of the rail- roads at his disposal and by the sac- rifice at times of entire battalions in order to bring off a few guns, suc- ceeded ifr saving a greater part of his artillery, but no fewer than 60,000 | of his 150,000 men are already count- ed among the German prisoners while his killed and wounded in the four days’ battle with which these opera- tions were inaugurated and the sub- sequent running fights are estimated at 30.000 men. 10,000 Russians Completely Surrounded On the streets of Suwalki there could be heard yesterday and today the sound of artillery from a swampy re- gion to the southeast where an iso- men strong, has been completely sur- rounded but still offering resistance. ably still remain in small scattered bands or are wandering as strazglers within the ring which the German troops have now closed around the Augustowo and the German frontier, but -the capture of these wanderers and the fated divislon is expected here and is regarded as merely an incident in a campaign to which this great success is called only the prelude. It is not believed amons German military men at Suwalki that General Slevers will be able to bring one-fifth of his troops safe at Grono—a safety of long duration. Abandoned Equipment. The above statement may seem to which may not be of The Associated Press, motoring along the line of the Russlan retreat over roads deep in snow and through a desolate and swampy country, gai ed an impression of complete defeat and demoralization which scarcely can be conveyed in word guns and automobile: wrecked and overturned wagons, sledges and am- munition caissons encumbered the way. Rifles, blankets, knapsacks and other equipment had been thrown away by the fleeing soldiers. Dead horses and an occasional f: dier were everywhere along the road- side. These things showed the con- ditions under which the hasty retreat had been accomplished. Russians Burned Houses and Killed Cattle. At street corners in Suwalkl, Au- gustowo, L. and other towns are great heaps of abandoned rifles and bayonets. Large bands of Russian prisoners, many of whom surrendered without firing a shot, were encountered along the way. The Russians in re- treat seem to have had only time enough to burn the houses on th German side of the frontier and de: troy the livestock which they were unable to drive away. This they did so_thoroughly that in the seventeen mile ride from Lyck to the frontier village of Prostken, for examrle, only one house with a roof on it was seen. The Russian part of Prostken and the Russian villages beyond have not been touched. For days past the correspon- those who look to are few Hugh see come back Jennings has gone south to get in a week of zolfing before the De- troit squad arrives. | A fairly zood sized bunch of ball players is now at Hot Springs, Ar The weather there is said to be “per- fect.” hicago fans lock to see Collins and Weaver star as the great infield pair this season. Weaver is the one-time Northampton playe: The Twin State league is now get- ting its share of publicity. That league should boom a merger plan with some of its Eastern association sisters. Harry Covaleskie looks for a great year with Detroit. He has been lim- bering up his arm for several-days and now says he is in fine shape for the spring training. The Feds look upon the International league as a great prospect. It would | International jumped to their side of the fence. its In- eague franchise at $15,000 times the club would be The The Jersey City club values ternational In “normal” eagerly snapped up at that price Feds did it. The Tri-State league is also in a hopeless state. Only three clubs were represented at the latest meetin; It was decided to start the season again, but nobody knows how it can be done. There are now only four clubs in the league. Eddie Collins thinks Connie Mack still a great ball club and that the -Athletics are just as strong as ever they were. He feels sure that the Athletics and not the Red Sox will be Chicago's hottest rival for the pennant, WASHINGTON Washington, Feb. 23.—The state de- partment fears for the safety of other American cotton ships following -the closed barely steady March 8.13: May 833;: July 8.57: August 8.87: Octoher 8.86; Decemdber 9.00; Janu- ary 9.25. Spot quiet; middling 8.35; no sales. MONEY. New York, Feb. 23.—Call money steady:; hig low 1 7-8; ruling rate 2: last loam 2; closing bid 1 7-8; of- fered at 2. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. wEEAT Hish. Low. Com. May 158 152 1538 July 8% sy 1% | TG it 132 W4 36 516 EETT R Y sinking of the American steamship Evelyn. The (Evelyn, carrying a cargo : EVEL Y SO BY PTIE FEARS OTHER COTTON SHIPS MAY MEET THE FATE OF STEAMER EVELYN of cotton to Bremen for Germany, was sunk by a mine in the North Sea. This was not in the new naval zone around England and no fear was felt | tional conmplications. But the fate of | the Evelyn may be shared by other ! ships now on the seas, and the ad- ministration is awaiting developments apprehensively. that the icident would lead to interna- | being thoroughly investigated. lated Russian division, perhaps 10,000 | Several thousanq more Russians prob- | v behind the fortress | Abandoned | | 1 i | woods and swamps between Suwalki, | forward i { | i i be exaggerated, but a correspondent | WOTK to accomplish marches not surprise the outlaws a bit if the | Grajevo on the heels of the enter | | | | freight dent has seen no-living animals ex- cept those in the German columns and dogs and cats in villages. The bodies of sheep and cattle killed by the Rus- sians have been left to decay by the roadside. Like a Gigantic Rabbit Drive, The, first phase of the campaign— the phase resuiting in the destruction of the Russian northern army—may be compared to a gigantic rabbit drive, or surround, in which men were the prey. z ‘While the attention of the Russians was concentrated on the Warsaw line Field Marshal Von Hindenburg quiet- ly assembling an overwhelming force in East Prussia behind the Mazurian lakes, suddenly launched it in two columns against the unsuspecting General Sievers. One column drove in from the south and threw back the Russians who for months had been besieging the lake gateways to East Prussia and the other column from the north swung around in a wide circle to the east- ward and to the southward, aiming to join hands with the southern Ger- man column and cut off the retreat of the retiring Russians. The two wings of the drive closed to the east of Suwalki and Augustowo only a few hours too late to catch the entire army. Most of the units of the Russian force, however, were bagged. Nature Helped the Muscovites, The delay which enabled the rem- nant to escape was due to nature. The line of advance of the southern column lay through the belt of swamps which form a natural defense of the Russian frontier. It is almost without roads and troops attempting to use the cross country trails became almost hopeless_ ly bogged. The correspondent saw columns of infantry, many of whi had passed through the mires more than ankle deep. Detachments of sol- diers assisted .in dragging the guns through the mud but their progress was extremely slow, “Nature,” said the commander of one of the German corrs engage said to the correspondent, “alwavs helped the Russians.” “Two days of hard frost should have had every man, Battle In Driving Snow Storm. _The correspondent examined 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, sweeping down from the no; was called upon most] for leg of forty in pursuit of the Russians who fled after the four day engage- ment on the Mazurian Lakes and thereafter the soldiers of the German army were chiefly interested in get- ting away. The battle in the south was of unique aracter. Again the Russian: It was fought in a driving snowstorm, a fierce ‘cutting wind driving the flakes into. the. face and eves of the advanc- ing Germans until they could scarcely we miles dail a nature aided see. Rifles Choked With Ice. When the Germans came to grips with the Russians they found their fles so covered with ice and the muz. 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 ly with their bayonets, but they stuck to their work despite heavy loss- he Russians were assuming the of- fersive when artiliery, which hither- to had been unable to get up through the forests to the south of the Maz- urian Lakes, arrived just in time and turned the scale. The troops of this column pressed forward along the Fairway. only a dozen miles wide, be- tween the Mazurian Lakes and the Russian frontier, driving the Russians before them Dbut they were forced to turn three times to beat off the flank attacks from the south. Russian Relief Columns Defeated. The Russian _commander-in-chief made desperate efforts to come to the help of his army whose plight by now was recognized. He sent in a_ colum of troops from the fortress of Loma: and from Kolmo and from the fort at Ossowetz. Each time the German commander faced a part of the troops to the souti, defeated the Russian re- lief columns and then continued his march. The retreat of the Russians on part of the field of operations co be made in only one direction: name- ly, the northeast, as the swamp belt prevented their escape to the east or south. The troops from the center and the northern flank of the Russian posi- tion were by this time in full retreat eastward and southeastward under pressure from the pursuing German forces converging on the Russian col- umn, all aiming for the only rems ezress from the circle to ward of Suwalki. Swamps Saved Russian Officers. The Russians, apparently became desperately jammed and on Feb. 15 when the correspondent arrived a ning the east- German troops, the German com mander was almost confident that the bag would be complete. Then came the delay in getting the flanking col umn across the swamps to close the hole in the ring’ and General Sievers with all his higher officers and the remnant of his army got away. That the Russian commander was able under such road conditions to brine off as much artillery and troops as he did, is in the opinion of Ger- man exports a most laudable achieve- ment. The roads are very narrow and obstructed with deep drifts of Snow. Each drift ‘usually indicated by a cannon standing .on its end or by a automobile. which .has been overturned in a ditch, showing that the Russians had suffered from the same obstacles. Several of the main roads were tried but they were utterly impassable on account of the SHow. But One Avenue of Escape. A picturesque scene, reminding one of a canvas the Russian painter Verestchagin, was witnessed on the trip between Augustowo and Suwalki. The road is cut like a canon for twen- ty miles through a dense Russian pine fo: and it formed the only available avenue for the advance of the German troops which by this time had left the escaping Russian army to other hands, 1d were pressing forward to partici- pate in a further operation. Horses Continually Falling Down. Along this twenty miles of road was a ‘solid stream of infantry, artillery and wagor trains, usually in three col- umns, moving irresisti The roadway was high pitched and ippery with ice. Smooth-shod horses were continually going down. The infantrymen equipped with a staff which seemed to have been copied from Verestchagin's soldiers. Soldiers Ate as They Marched. There was no stop or pause. The soldiers ate as they marched. The horses were kept moving until they were through the woods as there was no place to turn out and halt For many miles before Augustowo was reached the same ceaselessly moving column of men, horses and guns had been encountered—an army fifty miles long was on the march. The German general army head- quarters announced on February 18, two days before the foregoing des- patch was written, ~that 64000 Rus- sia d been . captured in the battle of the Mazurian Lakes in East Prus sia. On February 23, the capture of 40,000 more prisoners was announced, brirging up taoe total to more than 100,000 men and including seven gen- erals. Tuesday’'s Berlin official com- munication said that. more than 300 The Evelyn case is| Russian cannon had been taken by the | Germans.