Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-27

no doubt was sufficient explana
ton.
After EARNING with the cannoneer'
and the potato bakers until we were
nearly persisted with the cold We
pushed on ahead of the guns to the
bridge that crosses the Rawka ON the
other side Of the village Of Bolimow
Under the Shells Alright.
II was then that we had the curl
GUS sensation of hearing the shells
/ from the Austrian guns passing higf
over our beads on their six or seven
mile flight to the Russia positions, fol
We are now nearly two-thirds of a
mile i'm advance of the artillery
At the edge of the town the land
drops off abruptly. Thus bottom
lands which are flooded in the spring
between the town and the waters OF
the Bawka. Across the flats road
has been built to a height Of ten or
twelve feet and 1t connects BolimoW
+ with the Rawka bridge.
When we struck this piece Of ele-
waited road an officer said that we
We're i'm a fair way to draw the Rus
sian fire because We were silhOuetted
against the sky, and there is nothing
so disgusts a German officer as to
have a civilian or a wandering goat
draw the enemys fire on his men.
So we scrambled down into the bottom
lands ON the left side Of the highway
and plunged along for 200 or 900 feet,
everybody getting bored with bram-
bles and marsh grass.
Finally little Fabian, the Berlin
painter, who fears neither man nor
devil and will walk right up to a six
gun battery ANA talk to it while it is
coughing, said he didn't believe we
We're anywhere near i'm sight of the
Russian outpost ana that he didn't
care for the walking in the bottom
lands.
Gentle TO Wounded Prisoner.
Thereupon, with the short, round
Fabian for loader, we scrambled back
on TO the highway, where we cneoun-
tered two German soldiers carrying a
wounded Russian soldier on a
stretchor.
He made a huddled, piteous bundle
just like q bundle and like nothing
else--and the soldiers bore him ten
DERBY and sometimes directed encour-
aging words down at the bundle, but
the bundle made no response.
They couldn't be gentler with him
il he were one of their own com
radcs," J said TO the cOurtly Werth-
elmer of the Frankfurter Zotung.
"Of course he said "Why not2"
Tho man is no longer an enemy Of
ours. lie is wounded. When he gets
we'll he is an enemy again, and We will
send him into Germany with the 9th
er prisoners Of war
Then he stopped and gave the
stretcher bearers three cigarettes
apiece aud tucked three more into
fold of the wounded Russians gray
brown oyereoat
sentry Carries Muff.
We crossed the Rawka bridge.
There has been heavy fighting on
his bridge, and along both its APP
oroaches the roadside was strewn
With braces of unused cartridges,
'ome of which had been smashed flat
BY the wagon trains that had followed
he fighting. There were cartridge
)elts and boxes by the roadside, TOO, :
,nd some dead horses and torn caps
md all the rest of the squalid debris
If war
At the far end of the bridge stood .
German sentry with rifle on should |
n and both hands stuck deep into a I
lack muff of cloth edged and lined /
With fur Years ago | used to hear
tories about the dandified German
tfioers who carried muffs, and | re-
member that the fact was used as a
lur ON their manliness. 4
But here was a sentry carrying a II
1utf, ana | knew there must be Il
ound reason for it, as there is for
verifying in the German army And 1
he reason was. of course, entirely OBJ
ious
Not only did the muff not impede /
regulation as stiff gloves might nor |
hll the sentrN's hands as rainsoaked |
mes surely would have done but 1t
napled him instantly TO use his gun
ithout ungloving The seconds he
nus would save might mean the
iving of his life.
"Hootlsr for the Feet. Il
Along with the sentrys muff saw
ir hoods which can be attached to |
he stirrups OF saddles. Into these
oods or socks, II that is a better de- |
'ription OF them-the cavalrynen |
IA thrust their feet as they ride |
ong and keen themselves filter
II quick ork
Down p the river bank and in the
lelter Of abutments of The bridge |
ldiers ad built themselves tiny +
res ana were pottcring around nj / |