The Washington times., 1914-12-04
In Getting the Range of the
Enemy, Telephones Are Used
to Communicate With the
Battery in Giving Results.

booming and all around soldiers are
" orking. cooking. cleaning horses. build
Ing fires, chopping wood. for the living
must live and fight, as well as the dying
must die.
Death Ends His Misery.
One figure under a blanket. an I'm
shaved soldier whom the priest had
been unable to arouse. writhed and toss
ed about. The priest hurried over to
that corner OF the yard and stood with
outstretched hands and upIifted face,
with Red Cross doctor standing help
Iessly by his side, until the wrfthing
ceased with sudden jerk. and the sol
der Of Austria came to his end.
$40 p m.-We are having our own
experience with Russian shells. Colonel
John ard Captain Miakich had gone
with us 20 the first battery. where we
intended 20 say good-by to the COM
mandant. when suddenly a shell burst
on hill two hundred PAGES from US.
We could Gee the bits of broken shell
pillow their way over the ground. Then
came salvos of shells. The Russians,
II seemed. had felt out and found the
Austrian battery. The shells dropped in
the court yard Of a farmhouse, three
hundred feet away. Across the road
from US was a camp OF hundreds of
wagons. horses and men. The sight
was Undesirable, as they dashed OF
toward a hill which had a safe leeway-
For twenty minutes shell fell in our
area. First we would hear the very dis
tant burr of a Russian battery; then
would come the growing Shrek OF the
shells, and. by my watch. ten seconds
later somewhere around us there would
be a terrific explosion. which produced
clouds OF intensely black smoke.
Firing Suddenly Ceases.
Our battery returned salvo after
salvo. The man at the telephone
In the hole yelled his orders to the COM
mandant. who. in turn. yelled to the
sixty men at the guns. Whether our
firing did 1t or not. or whether the Rrs-
slams lost the range. no one could de-
eide but as suddenly as II begun. the
Russian firing ceased in our direction,
and We ventured out to see what holes
the Russian shells had made in the
| country round about. We found five
holes as large as cellars. and some
wounded horses. but no one had been
killed that we could discover.
At O'Clock it was pitch dark. We
went back to the creek and climbed
into our wagon for the return to Pre-
lnysl. The reserve men had come down
from the hillside, where thew had wait
ed all day. and were beginning TO cross
the bridge toward the front The white
morse IndI we ndu seen dhAOh6 NucAA
the morning was ridden by 4 young
captain with a bristling mustache. We
passed hundreds Of camp fires, and the
strings of wagons still filed the road
as they had done in the morning. and
as they had done every minute OF the
day, and as thev will do rs long a.
there are hundreds Of thousands OF
dead, hungry men or sickly, wounded.
and dying men on the PrZemysl Battle
ground.
Przemysl Is Safe.
$50 D. MI am back in Przemysl. IL
was nv first day Of actual battle L
have seen war at first hand. As for
the safety of Przemysl, it is certain
The Austrian soldier is taking his war
with enthusiasm. and l saw more snlii-
ing faces today and heard more hearty
laughs than I'd see or hear on The
streets of New York in whole month
You can measure the morale Of an
army by how much il smiles and by
I how little II worries, and this part or
The Austrian army around PrZemysl
| isn't worrying at all. that can see
| Most of the day Archduke Leopold
Salvador chief inspector OF artillery,
was at one point or another OF the
Austrian line, and I. myself. saw
| shell fall within less than three CITY
l blocks Of him.