The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-07-13

I'H'ENf. INC men advanced an niue
groups. creeping IN Lint with each
other; the officers walked about free
~. often IN advance of the men. or
encouraging any hat showed too
much caution. The commander and
I branchcd M into The edge Of the
wood; he turned and smiled at me as
the shrapncl tore away some OF the
boughs. At the bottom the machine
guns were hurried up, and we ascend
Cd the further slope.
We were now on q barc height
which was like q tongue projecting
forward, and a hot muskctry fire was
opened on Ms A man nca me called
GU that he was wounded and rolled
himself down to the hollow where a
bearer set about bandaglng him: a
shell burst beyond MS and another
called out, one could see what hap
pcned TO the men nearest To one.
The commander continued 10 stroll
about among the men. In the same
way as he would have lone out Of
action, several Of the men begged
him 10 lie down. We went around
tho height and he brought his men
everywhere to the edge of Il and told
them 10 entreuch themselves. which
they set about doing at once. We
could see where the bullets came
from, on the low ground in front To
our left was "a ridge with trees, along
which we could see men on horse
back coming from the direction Of
tho enemy. To our right. beyond the
wood. was n high ridge covered with
mon. who appeared TO be advancing
upon us but did not open fire.
suddenly q column of blue figures
was seen coming up close on q
front In what seemed q minute two
of our machine guns had been moved
to this side. Around some hrushwoud
thirty yards away came the first rush
Of tho columns; one caught sight ot
q line 81 pale faces our command
or shouted orders; "a young officer
clcnchcd his fist: our guuners ground
out a shower Of bullets, II the Aus
trian column disappeared into the
wooded valley.
Later In the day, after I had gone
back To- headquarters. ! learned that
the little commander had been
brought back into the town wounded
in the head In the last Austrian at
tack.
I'm the evening I rolroItod with the
divisional staff s"yorul miles 4" new
quarters Al along the road the
general stopped n s~t'lgglins sold
iors and asked closely what had hap
pcpcd to their regiments This was
an extremely well done, ne was re-
ally severe only 90 unC batch who
told him am obvious lie Altogether
the retreat, for 1t was that, was un-
attended hy T. panic and everyone
seemed anxious 90 help his ncishh"r
Going at % sharp trnt. we reached
our now quarters 700 . In the morn
Ing.
nwokc at noon in % farm house
In 70 village that was filled with the
Divisional field train The divisional
general had gone of early To the
front to rcctifv the new positions.
The news that came In was uncertain
and anxious The first hut when
the general and his staff had entered
had been made %uutcnHhlc 10y the en-
cmg's artillery. Tho second hut that
he visited was also set OF fire. No
further news Of him came tll late
I'm the cycning. he had barely escaped
capture.
Word came that the general stan
must be moved further back. Tine
field trains were set In motion and
We travelled without any kind of CON
fusion across u beautiful range Of
wooded hills. We stopped moro
than once To- see the fight that was
going ON below ms II wag a hlariug
limo Of fire and smoke. the twin ycl-
low and white bulsts of the Austrian
shrapnel being almost lost In the
white or black smoke of the German
artillery. We Travelled very Slowly
and for n good part of the day; ON
Gers ara men had u feeling ot great
voxation at having 90 retire before
troops which they felt themselves
capable Of beating with any equal
conditions
In the afternoon We drew mp In "A
large village :ull Of neld trains. Re-
ports came in from all quarters;
ncorl all the regiments had suffered
great losses Tho trenches had been
left only when the cncmy's artillery
had made them untonuhlc. In some
parts the systematic p~loughing up of
whole given areas had gone so far
behind our lines that ever approach
10 the trenches had been made Inn
possible.
The game was not lost, even on
this ground. and immediate measures
had been taken for counter-attacks
the following day, Meanwhile the
town In which We were was under an
intermittent hut violent lombard
ment VI aeroplanes and All the hos
pitfalls were being moved TO the rear.
The railway station VAS crowded