The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-12-12

D He, with five army corps completed,
annihilated the Russians; 100000 pris
oners. 100000 dead and wounded. The
poor men got lost and got between 9
lake and swamp on each side with the
German artillery in front and rear
and zepplins above. Patients told me
I that their dead were so thick that they
fell agains one another and remained
standing, and in other places they COW
cred the ground in layers. They cap
tured one baggage train of wagons
filled with provisions, which was 40
miles long. Just think of it.
Hail of Fire
From here our troops hurried up
north again and hailed fire into the
east army, with loss that caused them
to retreat in such haste that they
left their cannons and provisions. The
poor men were on the run for three
days and nights with our army pump
ing lead into them from cannons and
machine guns. Their loss, again, was
enormous. We chased them about 80
miles over the Russian border into
,, their forts, where our army is at pres
ent still firing away at them
We figure that during the past month
Russia has lost in round numbers
100000 men and about 1900 cannon.
This is not much for her as she has
plenty more men, but the others will
meet the same fate. The spirit of the
German against the Russian is unde-
scribable. Such hatred I have never
seen. The officers can not restrain
the men in the battles. They want
bayonet fight so they can kill them
with their hands. Ono would not be-
lieve it possible to have a bayonet
conflict in modern warfare, but I have
patient who was in five hand con-
ficts.
Yesterday I received a patient who,
with six others, stormed a trench in
which were As Russians. They struck
every one of them to death and lost
only one man. The Russians are
afraid of the bayonet and when they
see them coming on a rush they simply
lose their senses and do not know
what to do. The Russians are only
strong when in great majority and
these they can kill and then burn up
the houses.
C0ssack is a Fiend
You may have heard the term Cos :
sack. They are a sort of cavalry !
troops. They are trained horsemen and r
good shooters. They are an, entirely
separate organization from the in
fantry. We always distinguish be-
tween Cossack and Russian, because
as a whole are fairly decent, but the
Cassacks are a murderous band. All
they do Is !. ..4uIuer women and ole
men and burn their houses, and then
10 all the mean things possible. Such
as cutting off the right forearm Of :
Ioung boys SO they can not serve in
he army, and torture old people. In !.
me instance they caught young boy, b
punched out his eyes, bound him on a !.
lorse and sent him home This gang
# Is Cossacks were caught the next
lay and identified. All were given the
eath sentence. They were made to
ig their own graves; stand in front :,
f them; and then the order was given g,
D shoot and they all tumbled into their =
raves. There is a standing order not q;
D capture a Cossack, but that every !,
ne must be shot. | have some men 9.
no n''u d Doiion u w. anu ooo US ST
acks were going to storm them. They
ere in trenches, and let them ap- !.
roach until within so yards and then
not off the whole lot of them. Our
laps shoot to kill and make no mis-
Ike. The Russians shoot poorly and 9.
re poorly trained, whereas our men
'e all trained and have good ammuni
on.
Turkeys Aid is Great 1T
So you see that is the way it has In
me with the Russians. The French Ac
Id English were in hopes that the lal