The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-31
CORRESPONDENTS EXPERIENCE WITH RUSSIAN ARM
Stanley Washburn, One of the First Foreign OBJ
Allowed With Troops in Galcia, Sends
Description of Scenes in That Theatre of War

defence of the city itself and withdrew
through and around it and permitted
| the Russians to occupy il in perfect
| tranquility In the whole town there
| is not the slightest sign Of violence Of
| any sort whatever, and, though it is
crowded with the invading solGery,
| there is neither disorder nor confusion
of any sort.
On every hand one sees the Russian
soldiers of every branch of the service
| fraternizing and meeting cheerfully and
cordially with the population C the
place. The streets, restaurants, hotels
| and cafes are packo with officers. In
the week that | was there | never saw
either officer or soldier behave with dis
courtesy or arrogance toward single
individual. There is none OF the swagger
and insOlence that one sees in the OFF,
GERS of the German army. If a soldier
of any rank jostles even a simple in
habitant of the town you notice him
salute and apologize. Not single
drunken man did l see on the entire
Gaician tour.
The new Governor of GaECia, Count
George Bobrnsky, whom we met and
talked with, has the earmarks of pro-
gressive and liberal and it is certain that
Russia has started her government here
with the intention of giving a modern
administration; whether this policy will
continue after the war or not is mat
ter of speculation. The new Governor has
imposed no stringent rules or regula-
tions on the conquered province, and 1t
is fair TO say that those who do not
play politics will have no trouble at all.
To mix in the political life of Russia is
now and probably will be for some time
to come beyond the pale, and dare say
the victims of that desire will fare
much as they always have.
The city is supposed to be closed at
10 Z. NJ, at which hour the streets are
deserted. AS far as | could learn this
is about the only social restriction that
is now in force in Lemberg Here one
finds a great many Jews, and in Petro-
grad and elsewhere we heard rumors
Of excuses against them by the SOL
dery. | talked with many persons in
Lemberg, most of them anti Russians,
and the worst statement that / heard
was that there have been forty-one
killed since the city was occupied.
These are said to have been reprisals
due to their having fired on passina
soldiery. That they have done so re-
peatedly is undoubtedly true, for one
soldier was so killed while ] was in
Lemberg. while an English doctor in
charge of a Russian hospital told me
that shots were fired from houses al
most every night and that one of his
own nurses had narrowly escaped being
struck by bullet that whizzed past her
in the street. When we consider the
wholesale vengeance taken on Louvain
and other cities in the west on similar
charges the record Of forty-two cases
land this is the estimate of the anti
Russians) for period of more than a
month is certainly not dscredtable to
rhe invaders.
One sign of tolerance which strikes
one is the large number of Austrian
policemen in their old uniforms, plus a
Russian badge on their arms, that are
maintaining civil order in the streets.
wnen the Austrians departed they left