Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-26
PRAISE OF RUSSIA
4. BY WOUNDED MEN
Correspondent Says Prisoners
Are Grateful for Treatment
Received in Hospitals.
IN AUSTRIAN TERRITORY
CONQUERED BY THE CAR
Bernard Pares Writes of Narrowing
Scenes Witnessed and of Inter-
views With Captives.

| LONDON, October %, 9:o5 p.m.-Ber-
nard Pares. professor of Russian his
| tory and literature at the University of
Liverpool, who is now working as the
British governments correspondent at
the Russian headquarters. writes as
| follows under date of October "a:
II have spent some days in Austrian
| territory conquered by the Russians.
The Russian broad gauge railroad has
been carried some distance into Galicia
and further railroad communication
with the Austrian gauge and cars is in
working order.
The large waiting rooms are filled
with wounded on stretchers. Doctors
and sisters of mercy are in constant
attendance upon them. The wounded
utter no sound, except in few cases.
"One poor fellow, a bronzed. strap
ping lad. had been shot through the
lungs. saw him dying. He looked so
ing as he gasped and wrestled silently
with death. He seemed SO grateful to
those who sat with him. He died early
in the morning
Yates. keen-eyed and vigorous. They
said Their men were very good with the
bayonet and seldom surrendered-a
statement which was confirmed by a
returned from fighting In the passes.
Praise for Russia.
Though it seems the Hunsarians do
not consider the war as national be-
yond the Carpathians. they fight well be-
cause they are warlike and not because
they like this war Prisoners with
whom l talked were very enegetic in
praising their treatment by the Rus
SANS, which is indeed beyond praise
everywhere were men with tea, sugar
and cigarettes. These were the only
austrian prisoners with whom I had
seen trace of that national enthusi-
asm for war which is so evident with
all the Russian soldiers.
TAXED with two Italians-simple
friendly fellows-who described their
Urea 1reatment as pulite. or very decent.
The Slovenes and Bohemians seemed
rather in maze about the whole thing.
Luthenian soldier of Galicia was
very sorry about it. OF course, We had
to go to war; he said: but he ex-
pressed pleasure because the Russians
sarded 1t as compensation for his
wounds.
L saw the departure of a train of
Russ sian wounded; They were most
other. An Austrian patient told me he
was happy; he had made friends with
the Russians next to him.
Electric Cars as AmbuIances.
Electric cars are used as ambulances
and the chief buildings are turned into
hospitals. The biggest hospital is
served practically by Poles. The large
hospital of the dowager empress of
Russia is well equipped The Red
Cross organization is in the hands of
eminent public men. Count Vladimir
Bobrinsky is chairman of the relief
committee appointed by his cousin, who
is the Russian governor general of
Galicia.
This town (name deleted by censor),
which is old and pleasing, is set in
undulating country. 1t is in excellent
order. The little sporadic street firing
was quickly suppressed. All the in
habitants throughout the conquered
territory must be home from 10 o'clock
In the evening until in the morning,
unless they have special permission to
go about. How well this rule is kept
could be seen when I was returning
from the railroad station. No one was
out except the Russian sentries and the
Austrian policemen, who have been
continued on in their work.
Business Only Partly Interrupted.
THE day the Russians entered the
town the Polish newspaper issued its
morning edition under Austrian con-
troll. It's evening edition was Russian.
The electric lighting plant and the
tramways continued working and the
shops remained open. The fighting.
which was most severe, was all outside
the town. The amount of damage done
by the artillery in the zones OF action
was not great.
THE cultivation of the land is going
on as though no war was in progress.
There is no friction between the little
Russian peasants and the troops. or the
new administrators. The Jews are
adopting a waiting attitude. The gen
eral situation Is a great credit TO the
Russians, and gives ample proof OF
their close kinship with the great ma
jority of the conquered population.