. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. tocirculate stories of Russian atrocities in East Prus-sia, to offset the news of German frightfulness,—so named by themselves—in Belgium, but no con-firmation has ever been made from other than Ger-man sources. On the other hand, the German vic-tors are known to have slaughtered many thou-sands of Russians who surrendered in the morassesof the Mazurian lake region, firing machine gunsinto the trapped and helpless men. Hindenburgpla^^ed what he considered a practical joke on theRussian prisoners who were permitted to live. Hecame i
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. tocirculate stories of Russian atrocities in East Prus-sia, to offset the news of German frightfulness,—so named by themselves—in Belgium, but no con-firmation has ever been made from other than Ger-man sources. On the other hand, the German vic-tors are known to have slaughtered many thou-sands of Russians who surrendered in the morassesof the Mazurian lake region, firing machine gunsinto the trapped and helpless men. Hindenburgpla^^ed what he considered a practical joke on theRussian prisoners who were permitted to live. Hecame into possession of a quantity of bread, aban-doned by the Russians, which they had soaked withkerosene oil, to make it of no use to the it to the prisoners, Hindenburg command-ed, and it was done. Meantime the Russians advanced into the Aus-trian territory of Galicia, which is inhabited byPoles, captured Lemberg and laid siege to German invasion of Poland was made to compelthe Russians to evacuate Galicia and had the
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