Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-03-12 | Page 3 | Russian General Takes Own Life

oo RUSSIAN GENERAL TAKES J1WN LIFE Commander of Tenth Army Corps Said in Berlin to Have Committed Suicide. Berlin. March 12, by wireless to Sayville 'i he Frankfurter Zeitung has received a private dispatch from Petrograd intimating that General Sievers, commandant of the Russian Tenth army corps, which was de- feated in the winter battle at the Mazurian Lakes, has committed sui cide. The basis for this Inference seems to be the fact that reports have been In circulation concerning a mourning service held for the general in a Lutheran church. Dispatches from Constantinople tell of the further resultless bombard ment by the allies of the Turkish forts at the Dardanelles. The operations opera-tions have been hindered by stormy and foggy weather. A British landing corps, variously estimated at from 1000 to 2000 men Is reported to have been repulsed and compelled to retire to their vessels One report says these men were ither killed or captured by the Turks.