Winter on the Masurian Lakes of East Prussia. German forces launched the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in a blinding snowstorm.
Oestl. Kriegsschauplatz: Zur Masurenschlacht: An einem masurischen SeeEastern Theater of war: At the Masurian battle: On a Masurian LakeSerie 1/4Photogr. R. SenneckeReverse:Ausgabe des Kriegsfürsorgeamtes Wien IX.Kriegshilfe München N.-W. 19.Zum Gloria-Viktoria AlbumSammel. u. Nachschlagewerk des VölkerkriegesWar Office Assistance Edition, Vienna IXFor Gloria Viktoria AlbumCollection. and reference work of international warWar Fund Munich 11, N. W. 11
"The 9th Army is having great difficulty in extricating itself from the forest region which stretches east of Augustovo and Suvalki. At Kolno, on the Lomza road further south, one of its columns has been surrounded and destroyed. The communiqués of the Stavka are confined to an announcement that under the pressure of large forces the Russian troops are retiring to the fortified line of the Niemen. But the public understands."
Entry from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, for Tuesday, February 16, 1915. German forces had surprised the Russian army in East Prussia by attacking first in a blizzard on February 7, 1915, then by attacking from the north with a new and, to the Russians unknown, army the next day. The Russian army escaped encirclement and annihilation, but with heavy losses. Stavka was the Russian General Headquarters.
An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. I by Maurice Paléologue, page 287, publisher: George H. Doran Company, publication date: 1925
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