New-York tribune., 1915-03-30
GERMANS 20 MILES
FROM WARSAWS FORTS
Operations Ccaselcss and Ptless, Invaders Advancing
Seemingly. as Inexoraby as Fate-Brdges and
Railroads Destroyed and Rebuilt.
Bv JAMES O'DONNELL BENNETT.

Tho Germans tell tne story Detler-
like this;
"Orders to wreck the bridge so that
IL could not be repair d for two months.
lie did il. Orders to restore the bridge
In two weeks. lie did that, too. Iron
cross for the job"
In Lighter Vein.
As To the kind ot fighting that
brcaks the monotony OF the artillery
duela. here is specimen. Four miles
north by east OF Bolimow is the village
~ Rorzvmow. There was heavy Tight
inc around IL for days and that hght-
me eliminated early last month. In
tbe lote afternoon Of Saturday, January
. tho Germans, lying in the trenches
before Borzymow, amused themselves
and vorried the Russians win 'her
helmet trick. A. IL.
of tbeir rifles. they lifted them llttle
obovo The edge of the trenches, giving
tha Russians the idea that the whoie
iire was preparing TO scramble from
tbo trenches and make dash for the
puss{or nositions. Twenty times they
d;d tbis before daylight failed, aI"ayS
Jra,ying an en- rgetic Russian hre unli,
NJ Iast tho Russians became disgusteu
and ceased to pay any attention 10 '"e
helmet antics. l;1
really come on, and by midnigh' oi
January 2 to 3 they had stormed anu
captured Borzymow. But at mldhlSh'
of January 3 and 4 the Russians re
took their former positions ana uroNe ,'
the Germans out OF BorZymo". All
dav of Monday, the 4th, the Germahs
had that fact to ponder upon ana ,ney
aDpeared not 10 care for ~ lot aI'cl
nightfall they again stormed ana aHalu
captured Boryzmow, and, having taAem
I 900 prisoners, asked the Russians now
tbey liked that complexion OF tnihss
The Russians seemed reconciled ana
did not come back. Now the place 's
heavily defended.
Decoy Trenches; Dummy Guns'
put ne 70 tricks, the Russians can
,,o+cb the Germans any day, with thelr
dccov trenches and dummy guns Inc
Joco,, trenches, which are lett some
,,Lot exposed, are dug 1,5OO 20 E,ouo
fo,t in front of the actual trenche3'
mich arc heavily screened with earIH
onJ bourhs. On the decoy tLehcheS
20 mounted-not too obviously 'ne
J,,,,rov Guns fashioned out OF logs:
Tho actual guns-only light pieces, OF
back on the lines Oh actua.
trenches, and these guns are ui"o9'
cn.;relv buried in the earth:
The high advantage Of all th'S uecot
L,sinnss which involves a vast amount
of Grim toll. il that when the myers
tbirk tbcv have discovered the true
rosition of the enemy. and begin TO
sional their information TO the a'tI-
icTy thcv have discovered only the
foise trenches and the dummy. guns.
And when the artillery acts on tins IN
formation It is pounding only the de-
Gov works to pieces and working no
harm Mt all to the true position nearly
n third Of mile away.
When the German flyers were mover
inc above the Russian positions the
Russians permitted no firing, and 80
doys would sometimes pass before the
Gvers-very puzzled and so rendered
suspicious would. partly by chance
and partly BY persistence, get an lhA-
iinc Of the real state Of affairs. ..
Dots very, very clever indeed.
said the Germans when they at last
cot the hang of the ruse, adding: we
let they learned it from the japanese.
For everything clever the Russians do
the Germans have that explanation
1--WE bet they learned it from the Jap
ancsc."
,copy-ish, 1915. BY The Chicago Triouns)