Amsterdam, Feb. 17. A Berlin communique announces that, after a nine days' winter battle in the region of the Maeurian Lakes, the Russian 10th Army, consisting of eleven inf sions try and several cavalry jons, hae been thrown across the frontier.
The communique asserts that the Rustian forcee were almost encircled and were severely beaten. Those remaining escaped into the forest east of Suwalki and Augustoyo. Many Russians were killed, while the number of prisoners taken has not yet been ascertained but is surely over 50,000, vith forty guns, sixty machine-guns and much war material.
The communique also states that the German Emperor attended the decisive battles. Our troops were p [old eastern men ith young troops who were specially allotted to this task and who proved equal to their old comrades, in spite of the very adverse weather. Gener von Hindenburg directed the operations, which were carried out splendidly by General Eichhorn and General von Buelow."
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