The Sentinel=record., 1914-10-04
FEEL LITTLE OR NOTHING WHEN YOU ARE LINED UP AT THE
 FRONT OF FIGHTING
The Soldier at Work Sees Very Little of the General Battle, and Displays Practically No Prejudice In His Fighting.

trian reserve officer, who, after hav-
 ing been wounded in an engagement,
 with the Russians, gave the following
 interview to an Hungarian journalist,
 The officer in question was with Gen
 eral Dankl in the fighting southeast
 of Krasnik.
 You feel little or nothing while ia
 battle" he said. At feast you forget
 how things effect your mind. The eyes see and the ears hear, but those are perceptions which do not result in impressions one could coordinate. They do not even effect your senti' ments. But it is not cynicism for all that merely the lack of appreciation of what takes place. My captain, q most lovable fellow, whom l did not only respect as an officer, but of whom l also thought great deal per sonally, was leading his company in- to fire when three bullets hit him in the abdomen. I saw him fall, but
 thought nothing of it, and marched on.
 Tn spite of the fact that you hare no i'll feeling against the enemy, and
 may not even fear him, you destroy him as best you can. On the even ing before our first battle we were sitting about the mess table-mOst oi
 us officers of the line. None of us
 had ever killed a man. l said: My Friends, when l meet the first Russian
 officer tomorrow. my impulse will be to shake his hand My comrades agreed with me But on the following day l was obliged to lay a number ot | Russians low.
 My Sloyacs are the most phleg-
 matic people in the world, but ex- | cellent soldiers. They shoot without anger, but simply because they are fired upon. One fights because one is Jn the battlefield and can not do any different. The terrible thing is that often you are shot at without being able to return the fire. But this is
 not as fear-inspiring as it is dis couragng. You learn to Know what
 fear is when you begin to realize that you might be killed without killing
 somebody first.
 "Of course, have been scared. That was after I had been wounded. We had been firing long time and when next we advanced we came into a deep sandy road, out of which we could not get because of the enemy
 terrible fire. We had to lie perfectly still while bullets simply poured over us. That was awful"
 The officer omitted to state thai while in this position he was shot three times in the arm, but continued
 to lead his troops throughout the en- gagement.
 Tt is well known fact that the soldier sees very little of the battle. On August 24, early in the morning, we received orders to occupy a To" hill at the edge of a tract covered with
 brush wood. Forming part of the re serve, we were expected to remain under cover. In front of us was q
 large open battle field. To each side of us were batteries which had thun- dered away since early in the morn ing. The result of this was that ma ny of the enemy's shells dropped right in front of us. 1 remember no
 ticing that while the smoke of our shells had a lilac color that Of the .,o,,,xvfr Vyac x1fbffh
 So far we had not been disquieted by the shells at all. On the edge o! the brush wood had been planted a yellow-b black flag, showing that some
 where in that vicinity was to be found our general staff. Our colonel left us and walked towards it, possibly to get
 orders, but just as he got there shrapnel exploded a little ahead oi him in the air and we saw our com manding officer, in whom we placed all our confidence, go down, After
 that it was a terrible feeling to lir still From that moment on, too, q veritable hail of shells began to fall Some sappers, who had been busy dig ging trench for the general starr started to run. l feared that my sol diers would follow the example, and
 began to make fun of the poor sappers
 scolding them at the same time
 Thank God, my battalion found thaI funny and began to laugh. They lived through a terrific shrapnel fire witt
 not care and even found occasio. for laughter.
 "A major took command of tho regiment and we received orders tC retake a hill which the enemy hat
 taken under heavy fire. But Of tho enemy nothing at all was to be seer
 as we neared the position, though tn, l hail of shells and shrapnel increased
 in fury. The flag bearer marched
 about 300 paces off my side. By ac
 cident I looked in his direction, saG the white cloud of smoke of a Russian shell and where the flag bearer had
 been there was nothing more to be seen.
 The enemy meanwhile had taken | to flight and later we saw the Rus