The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-12

deeds in the war are done by our Jews"
 Proof of that I see in the Jewish hos
 pital, where is Private Moisei kaplan, L Jewish soldier of well known Polish fam fly, who has four bullets in his body.
 Kaplaps platoon. he last left Of shat tered company, was surprised near
 Skierniewice. Germans on both sides ou.-
 flanked. The noncommissioned officer
 was killed. kaplan said fight Tho
 platoon seized farm, and, firing out of
 the windows repelled and held at arms
 length thrice it's number. of Germans.
 Then they made dash. The dash seemed
 bound to fail. As it started q Russian
 percussion shell dispersed the Germans.
 and the dash succeeded. From the last
 German volley Kaplan got four bullets
 kaplan is a St George Cavalier and
 Belostock is proud of him. But Bielo- stock asks, will Poand's Jews be given ordinary human rights and legal justifi-
 ation to live, now when they show them
 selves Russias bravest defenders?
 In this hospital is noncommissoned officer Porphyry Alba, who has a strange tale. Porphyry is a hero, as a man so ramed must be. He shows no wounds,
 but souirms with ague. rheuma tism bronchitis and 10 other moisture and watery ailments. Porphyry got his ills from standing in wet river. and shoot ing Prussians. Porphyry and his infan- try company were in trench on thA Lower Bsura.
 The Germans sent men to reconnoitrA and snipe. They seized a copsc on Porphy- rys companys right enfiladed the trench and slew the captain. two lieutenants and the senior sergeant So Porphyry got the command Frosty ground and lack of | tools prevented Porphyry's men malSng| l better trenches or traverses. Porrhyry] l had the noble notion of turning into al 1 fortress the icy Bsura itself. He and his| i company the 70 left waded in, and with | only their heads and shoulders exposed.l l sniped the Prussians in the trees. Afterj l 10 minutes it was unbeara bly cold. Th0| Prussian sharpshooters aimed with sand guinary surety at the soldiers dry heads.I | So Porphyry ordered the evacuation o6 1 the waterv fort. The heroes returned to|
 the trench and let themselves be mas-| ga cred. Half an hour later they were|
 relieved Porphyry received influenza, the| 1 St Georges cross and three other all I ments. I asked him: 1 Where did you get thes droll idea oq l turning a river into a trench?"
 "When was a small boy, living in thisl very street, other boys tormented mel
 They nicknamed me Garlic and threw' l stones. When stones were thrown used] l to take refuge in the Bagnoka pond and | duck my head as they flew past 1 At 10 on my first Bielostock night walked to the railroad depot. I expect1 I ed more artillery trains. Instead I saw 1 the train with the Finnish passenger car l Beside the car stood the stationmastei with his hand respectfully on his ret 1 forage cap, and before him stood thu l three-dinnered general with the red lining | to his coat. The coat Tapped with emo l tion. The general commanded: the sta i l ton master said "Ladno!' 'Agreedv | and gave orders. The artillery traii5 l bucked, backed and made way for ana
 other. Swiftly the general dashed int | Buffet I Classa~" I bought the Petrol
 grad ''Rietch." and waited his returr1 ] in 10 minutes out he came with happ
 face. and sandwich in each hand. 1 sandwich of transparent pinky 'siomH l ga." Smoked salmon. I understood
 A moment later the artillery trail
 changed into the station again The staI tion master saluted The general disart peared. Hardly had the train vanishei
 when into the station crawled new Rel Cross train A surgeon in white ove1 l all jumped out and gesticulated.
 Such--from behind--is war.
 Copyrighted. 1915. by Curtis Brown)k