Show PRISON ERS RS NUMBER I I Germans Say Russian Defeat Was Greater Than First Reported BERLIN Fob Feb 12 Via Vla Via London The rhe German Gennan official ocial statement issued today Oday announces that the captures in tho ho battlo of the tho lakes this dis of East Prussia have been in in- I creased to seven generals and more than in-I in I moh mali The pieces of cannon taken numbered Tho The text of tho the statement reads rends II In CIn In the western estern theatre II Another hostile trench was taken by us yesterday to tho the cast of Ypres in inI Belgium Bel um The enemy's enemy 3 counter attacks Ion I on the captured positions remained un un- un I successful iii In In tho the Champagne no district there The was comparative quiet yesterday number of prisoners taken b by us during the last battles battle in this thib region has bas been increased to fifteen 1 ftc n officers and snore moro than ono one thousand men The sa sanguinary I ary a losos 10 sos of or the enemy have h been becu ex ex- extraordinarily extraordinarily high lI O an unsuccessful attack attack at tack on our positions position to the east of oi ox Verdun during tho the night In the Vo es the tha villages of Hochrad Hoch- Hoch rad md and anti taken talen by bv us after a n short engagement Otherwise e nothing of importance occurred oe Pursuit Ends Enda I i I In th the eastern theatre tho the pur pursuit uit after the winter battle in tho the an district has bets come to an end During Durin the tho clearing up of operations to the northwest ot Gro no and in m the tire battles batUc reported during t the be last few fow days das inthe in inthe the Bobr Bohr and Na i districts ono one commanding com corn manding general genral and four our other generals and approximately forty thousand manhave man men havo have been tak taken n prisoners to the present pres pres- eat ent time timo 1 Seventy live e cannon ann on an and some Bomo machine m guns nus the actual number of which has hils not yet ct been ascertained I and much other war material m have has been I captured I The Thc total boot booty taken in the winter I battle battlo in the district as 35 a result re ro- I suit sult of theses theM additions has hns been increased increased in creased to date to seven cn generals more snore than men upwards of can can- cannon non an and quantities of 01 other material of all descriptions the amount of which h cannot yet be approximately estimated Cannon of a H. heavy caliber and ammunition amI ammunition am am- I are buried burlEd by tho the en or sunk In the lakes near nt-ar Loetzen and In the sea sta Eight cannon o of heavy caliber were dug due up or pulled out of the water rater yesterday esterdaY The Tenth nu arm army under Baron Siever Is considered as having b been n de de- Yew New ow battles appear to be developing at Gro and to the north of or It ItIs Itis Is la reported that the battles to the northWest northwest northwest north north- west cf or and I Ioma as well wen as those tho at ore are taking thair th lr re regular lar course courso There Then is no news from Poland to te the Ule south of ot the Vistula river rl |