Evening star., 1914-11-15

surgeon who is helping the Austrian
Red Cross. When the Austrians were
driven back on Lemberg Fener was
left alone in a farmhouse. No Red
Cross flag was put up, and the ad-
vancing Russians shelled the house.
Ten minutes later, he said, ''in
rushed three Cossacks, seized me in
their arms and kissed me demon
stratively that 1 thought 1 should
bleed to death. 7 never heard any
thing sweeter than the kissing Rus
sian spoken by these men from the
kuban.
In Moscok the writer visited the
Lazaret of the Virgins Commune, in
nearly all occupied. He was able to
deliver to Lieut.. Skvortseff, badly
wounded man, a letter from his sister,
a Red Cross nurse, who. as he be-
lieved, disappeared after the Germans
occupied Grajevo, in Poland, near the
East PrusSian frontier.
This officer gave a vivid account of
a German time shell which killed and
wounded seventy men. The shell, ap-
parently an eight-incher was nearly
spent when it exploded over a march,
ing column. Lieut.. Skvortsef indicat-
ed brother officer who had fought
the Austrians under Gen. Auffenberg,
and had brought back four bullet
wounds, none very serious. This SOL
der said:
I'VE had desperate fighting for three
days with Honved units. They fought
very well, but, l was told, marched
badly, being used to sitting in front
of adobe houses in the Puszta plain
and chewing pepper pods. These Hun
SarianS are tremendously brave and
cool headed. At Buchawa, village on
our line of march from Lublin to Lem
berg, we had evidence of that. The
remnants of several battalions of dis
persed Honveds tried to hide from US
in a wood. They had four or five hun
dred men.
I'VE did not know that the Hunga-
rians We're there, but some of our
shells, which were intended to draw
the fire of the Austrians on the right
and disclose their position. fell in the
wood and in a farmhouse at the edge.
The farmhouse blazed. Next the pine
trees caught fire.
The wind drove the smoke and
made dash toward another farmhou
not far off. On the way they mad to
pass Il junction of two roads, down
which came headlong 800 OF our dra-
men collided The first Honved men
We're dispersed and sahered. The ones
behind took it calmly. They aimed
at the necks of our mems horses, and
brought about 4 dozen ANNA Is down,
thus blocking the road. Then they
poured volleys at the dragoons be-
hind and finally they lined up along
the sides of the road and shot at us
at point blank range.
My brother was wounded and has not
since been seen. The Honved officer
a fussy, gesticulating little old man.
showed extraordinary tactical skill.
Our men cleared out, having lost about
seventy men, killed and wounded
Later in the day the same dragons.
reinforced, rounded up in a field these
very Honveds and captured about 2oo''
At the converted hospital-apartment
Of Nine. Ilinslly, in Arbat, the writer
met three soldiers who We're wounded
by one enfilading shrapnel fragment.
That is the doctors assumption. The
wound in each case was a horizontal
tear across the back of the thigh at
the same height. As the men We're
marching side by side, it is assumed
that one shell fragment did the work.
From Sergt. Sedelnikoif of the 10th
Army Corps, comes an interesting story
of a shell which killed three men in
different ranks and spared men in in
tervening ranks.
Sedelnikoff says this happened dur
ing the march of Gen. Samsonoffs S army