The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-03-30
By Herbert Corey.

NA"NN 'hN 'NfA AlANhl ANen "NaA y
these awkward shapes that but a lit
tie time ago were men. Yesterday We
rode by the ruin Uf what had been II
fine old farmhouse, set In the middle
Of country that had been laid bare
by the COssack. There was not lly-
ing being within ten miles. There had
not been a living being In that wreck
ed house for weeks Scattered through
the fields surrounding II we saw dull
Jumps Of rags. now merging slowly
with the wet soil
Look, said my companion
Two great black aud white cats
were cruuchcd over something In the
field near the roadside They tore o.
II savagey and spat at each other
They were huge cats There was some
thing monstrOus and appalling In their
flesh As the car came to u stop they
| gared at us aud growled warning In
their throats What were living men
to them--that had grown familiar
| with the dead?
This morning we drove down the
main street Of Suwalki-PetrogrAdski
. pro,pckt Suwalki calls Ito see
/ what We might see There are good
/ sized public buildings In this town
which once had $4,000 inhabitants As
the Germans held IT, It was some
what less ubuminuble I'm It's filth than
/ the usual Russian village Not IL shop
window had been broken by the Ger
mans though not shop roof remains
. On the German towns the Russians
took Women walked freely upon the
streets Except that there were many
orderly German soldiers about, look
Ing curiously ut the town. 1t might
have been pence in Sulwalki We
could hear the jolting rumble Of the
big guns not far away.
There's soldier said the Rltt'
mclstrr "a Russ"
He lay In the ditch which runs by
the side Of the petro1rudsN Prospeki
Suwalkls principal street Doubt
less he had fallen several days ago
when the Russians were flogged fran
ucNlly out Of this town. Then there
had been fighting In the streets Th'
German burial squad had passed
through, Of course, but In some way
they had missed him II was not III,
business Of any one else to care to
this poor peasant lump.
Little Boys Play With the Dead.
"Iey :" said little boy--a littl'
boy who would have been in tn,
Third Reader class at home He way
ed his hand frantically to the grouI
NJ other little boys who were standing
on the cutters edge one Of then
was poking curiously at this deaf
Russian with stick Death has M
dignity behind the battle line. Hi
companions watched the dead Russian
aud the little boy with a certain horri
fled interest The other little bO!
kept calling. So the group left thei
occupation 10 join him-on the Othe
side " the Petrugradskl Proskept ant
half an American block away. Their
lay another dead Russian. The llttl
boy who called began to assume th
airs Of Snowman.
Three days before the dead and dy
ing had been. everywhere. l talke
German armf IN the attack upon tn
German army on the tack upon III
. Russians which ended In the victor
:, " Augustowo For twenty kllome
. crs on the German side Of Suwall
is n great rolling plain, thrOug
which runs the road to Riga. 1t wa
II up this road that the two armies hu
y rled This man said that as far as I
II could see ON either side the whit
ID snow was dotted with dead men II
2 Is an American
II "If you can imagine field Of cor
ID In sack and every shock u man-yo
le have that Suwalki plain" said he
Ir Behind the army come the me
'e whose duty II is to clear up the ba
re tlefield. They do their hard-wOrke
m conscientious best but II IL inevitab
that here and there they overlook OF
e among the many Sometimes In h
ID blind agony that man has wandert
IN out Of the field OF action SOmetim,
nj the dying man seeks shelter, obeyiI
sd that instinct which directs the beas
lr of the field to do their dying In Il
re- dark, hidden places, There II n sh'
vt near the village Of Augustown-
m mere black barracks just roof su
ld ported on four stone walls 1hr
N days later the battle was over
tx casual wanderer happened In. TT
he floor was covered with white, hu
III died shapes self-strlpped for the mo
part in their agony and with the
Ie was one who had not yet been I
nj leased
II CarriOn for the Crows.
II Throughout this flagellated cou
Ms try are crows flOcks Of crows, n
hr gle crows, crows flying heavily
Az twos and threes. They are not
American crow--than God-but
90 heavier bird with dull, lusterless gr
at backs and bellies and black win
en- Germans call them "krehe," Whs
ny one sees many crows one knows WI
Ist has drawn them. There was a sto
az cottage near Stsllupoenen. The dot
nj nnd windows had been smashed 10
st proof that the Russian had be
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