The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-05-28
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Petrograd. Via London, May FL
I'm the fighting OF the past three
weeks" says the official statement,
referring 10 the recent clashes in the
Carpathians, "the enemy's losses in
the Carpathians on May 10. IL. IL and
|lS, during which the fighting lost
some of its intensity. averaged 10000
IA day. On the other seventeen days
they were much heavier especially
during the period between May 16 and
10. when they amounted TO several
tens thousands daily.
Certain regiments of the enemy
were reduced to n single company.
Their total losses during this period,
including 10000 prisoners. captured
by us. undoubtedly reached one fourth
or perhaps one-third OF their total
strength"
will Remember Shakespeare.
IAssociated Press oispatch.I
Amsterdam. May 21.-The German
Shakespeare society held its usual
annual meeting at Weimar on the last
Sunday In April. but only eight dele
gates were present. A committee
was appointed to prepare for the cele-
bration next year of the precautionary
OF the poets death. and resolutions
were passed ayowing that Shakes
peare belonged TO Germany as much
as to Great Britain The society
voted an subscription OF $1,000 to the
German war loan.
Plenty Of New Skin.
IAsaociated Press Dispatch.1
London, May 2I.-"Skin: officer
requires four by three inch piece OF
skin to cover wound and expedite his
/, return To. duty; opportunity for un-
selfish patriot" This advertisement.
which appeared this week in the per-
sonal column OF The Times. brought
answers and offers of skin from more
| than fifty volunteers within two days.
The advertiser is an army man con-
/ fined in a hospital because OF an
aviation accident.
Russians and Then Bath.
TAssociated Press Dispatch.l
Radzivilov. Poland. May al
: Every day I'm the trenches around
B. west of Warsaw, sees detach =
ments OF some 200 Russian soldiers
scrambling through the forest In the
rear for an evergreen sponge with
I which to scrub their bodies in bath
ing train nearby. Like school children
on n picnic. the overweight soldiers
after having dwelt for q week under
almost continuous fire. frOlic in the
woods as they vie with each other In
| finding the best piece Of foliage which
can be- used as a rude sort Of sponge
| or brush.
The bathing train tn which they
then repair is made up OF string of
nine baggage cars along the railroad
line running from B 10 Warsaw.
| The cars are provided with steam
I pipes after the manner OF Turkish
bath and the floors are grooved TO let
the water run on freely. Although
each car easily accommodates thirty
soldiers AZ a time. all nine cars are
occupied day and night as one lot oil
men after another arrives for the
weekly bath. which is compulsory.
! The first stage of the bath is a dis
injecting car where the soldiers leave
their clothes and rid themselves Of the
vermin.
After an hour in the Turkish bath
4 the bathers proceed into a car at the
ether end OF the train. where clean
linen is supplied and where their dis
infected uniforms have been brought
to be claimed by checks. The soldiers
finally emerge from the last car
| shaved. sleek and smiling.
! The village of B is also inter
esting as a Red Cross center. This
bureau also takes the form OF a train
where in international sleeping cars
with every luxury known TO travel
are stationed a staff of doctors and
nurses. There is also an operating
train at this point but only the mos
serious cases are taken there. The
field hospital. however. which Is 9
large circular tent. Is commonly
crowded with the wounded.
One of the nurses I'm this field hos
pital is a Madame G. whose husband
commands a division which is oper,
ating only a few miles from wher,
she is caring for the woundsd. Man,
of the patients which she treats be-
long TO her husbands division. Anotl
er nurse comes from the Baltic prov
inces. and her brother is fighting II
the German army. But II her allegi.
ance Is divided. not n sign of this ap'
pears n her painstaking efforts Il
make the wounded comfortable. Sh,
has initiated a series OF checker con.
tests i'm the hospital tent. and thi.
sport has become so popular that on,
sees almost every day n long line o
freshly wounded waiting for thch
tn at the game.