The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-05-03
LITTLE lRONIES OF WAR NOTED
In THE CAPTURE OF PRISONER S

I 10 ags. native town. names % nearest
I relatives. state OF health nature Of
l belongings. such as watch. leWelry.
| money. etc.
I After that the games and studies
begin and n was In reference 10 the
ie 5SIaR, srTsn95 o. "a, rational and I'd
my Tribune letter 10 Sir Arthur Doyle
the remark OF Mrs.. Gully. cousin OF
SIR Edward Grey. who. after a visit TO
relative in the military prison at
7 kreteld. said. Why. II Is like a boy .
school az home"
3 The number 81 prisoners Of war in
Germany today exceeds 1000 600. In
March alone over "a 0oo were taken
d Yesterday the Austrians Gathered in
200 Russians in the Carpathisns. but
the number was not sufficient to
arouse Jubilant comment In Germany
The feeding OF these hundreds OF
thousands OF adults must be an enor-
nous burden for an empire that IL
urging upon even the children the
counsel that not TO waste Is truly to
serve the fatherland in its time OF
trouble.
Thinking OF that. I asked a German
officer why Germany had made no ad-
vance in The matter OF a general ex.
change OF prisoners He winked
while"
A million prisoners and the number
ever growing. undoubtedly are going
10 prove no negligible factor when
the warning powers begin TO discuss
terms OF peace.
Only certain prisoners OF the Mo
hammedan faith have been released.
50 the gossip runs. and they have been
sent back TO the east on the strength
OF their plea TO be allowed to join the
Turkish army.
The most dramatic as well as the
most unexpected individual capture
made by the Germans was the capture
OF the Governor OF Warsaw, who rode
serenely TO his fate in an automobile
with footmen in livery and proclaim
cd himself as "eNcellenz" when he
rose from the back seat and handed
his revolver over to a Prussian lieu
tenant OF dragons.
There have been two versions OF
this capture. BY chance during my
wanderinEs along the east front hap
pened to hear a third account. which.
i is now pretty generally agreed. is
soldiers sol who had Il first nG hand rom rom
dragons who played a part in the
II happened on the road from Kutno
TO LOWER. and the governor was not
red eross un nof ws ns tsSe0 E5 the
train OF automobiles by an Austrian
private after a hand TO hand fight.
Kutno II a typical enough Polish
Russian town of 1900 inhabitants Al
pretty good road connects 81 with Lo-
dicz. which is twenty-five miles east
by little south. Along this road the
governor OF Warsaw was riding east
ward in an automobile on the morning
Of his capture. confident. OF course.
that the whole countryside was in the
hands OF the Russians
But the fact was that the best part
OF the Russian force supposed to be
holding whe Kutno end OF the road 10
Lowicz was safely locked up I'm the
big white church at Kutno and had
Early in the morning German cav
airy had dashed into Kutno. captured
the town. sent the Russian soldiers
10 church, and cut the telephone and
telegraph lines running TO Lowicz
Then a detachment OF cavalry was
sent forward along the Kutno-Lowioz
highway.
Realizing that they might be fred
on at any instant, the men were NOV
ing cautiously along-at a slow trot,
all now agree.
Suddenly a large automobile hove
could only be the enemy. the detach-
ment broke into a gallop and soon
bore down on the car. On the back
seat were n Russian general in full
uniform and his adjutant. The chauf-
feur and footman were wearing gar
ments more like a livery than a uni
form. The general turned a Dale vel
low when. after evident effort. he
grasped the fact that he had ridden
straight into a detachment OF Prus-
sian dragons
The soldiers agree that he did not
lose his self-control. but moved and
spoke like q man in n dream. When
lieutenant refined up his horse be
side the automobile the general rose
and handing the lieutenant his TO
volver. which had lain on the seat be
side him. Raid in German:
"Raron Koeff. excellenz. governor
OF Warsaw
A dispatch rider dashed back 10 the
colonel OF the regiment OF which this
advance detachment was part
When the colonel appeared on the
scene the governor stood up again.
unbuckled his sword and handed II
over to the colonel.
What did he do them" one OF the
cavalrvmen was asked
Well. he did nothlng-iust got a
shade yellower and seemed very I'M
hanDy and nervous"
'Tis the fortune OF war.
Copyright 1915. by Chicago Tribunc)