Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-07-23
GENERAL DOOMS
NEPHEW CAUGHT
AS A DESERTER
Russian Commanders Vote De-
cides Fate of Young Pole
Who Quit Regiment.
JOINED THE AUSTRIAN ARMY
General Radymno Had the Misfortune
to Preside at the Court Martial
Which Sealed the Fate of
His Favorite Relative,
BY Of. WOLF Won scHiERsRANp.

tbs FaVoFtte Relative.
BY DR.. WOLF Won scHlERBRAND.
Correspondent of the New York SUM.
Vienna.-Doubtless the darkest ma
tional tragedy in this world wal is
that of the Poles. There one sees a
distinct chronological entity, a people
whose tongue is the most musical and
cultivated of all the Slavic languages,
with a fine literature showing names
like that of Henry X. Sienkiewicz, of
universal fame, advanced in all the
arts, Paderewski being a fine KAN
pie; the most gifted of all the Slavs,
of high valor, of a quality both dis
tinct and elevated. Yet the curse of
destiny has brought it about hat this
people of altogether about q, 200, 900
has been split up into three unequal
parts-roundly, 10000, 900 of them I'M
der Russian rule, about 1000, 900 I'M
der Austrian and about 5000, 900 under
German rule. And what results of
even the present giant upheaval will
be 80 far as the Poles are concerned
not even the wisest can foretell.
Tragedies Every Day.
Meanwhile every day tragedies on a
minor scale are happening among the
Poles which, for the most part, will
never see page and printers ink. Yet
many are worth the telling. Here is
one in point. l tell it just as it was
told to me. without the slightest at
tempt at coloring the facts. Let the
reader judge for himself.
Among the Russian prisoners taken
at Tarnow, Galicia, some three weeks
dignified looking man. a general who
had not yielded without first using
his sword. He was General Stephen
Radymno, a Pole by ace and Ian
guage, but a brave, undaunted soldier
of the car. He Is o recovering
from his injuries in one of the reserve
hospitals of Vienna, and later on will
be taken as prisoner of war to n OF
the great camps in Bohemia.
Nephew a Deserter.
General Radymno had the misfor
tune to be forced to condemn his ia
vorite nephew to death. He presided
at the court-martial which sealed the
young mans fate, and his was the
deciding voice that doomed the young
man to immediate execution; for the
nephew, Jan Radymno, had committed
treason. Although serving in one OF
his uncle's own regiments as first
lieutenant, he ha6 gone over to the enc
my-to the Polish legion fighting un'
der the banner of the Hapsburgs. This
he had done in the middle of the
night, and in his shabby quarters,
short distance back of the trenches
there was found the next morning q
slip of paper on which were a few
lines addressed to his uncle, the gen
eral saying he found himself forced
to choose between two duties-an6
that toward Poland came first" Their
he had added a word or two to the
general himself imploring him to fol
low his example land help free POLAND
from the Muscovite yoke"
Poles Make Raids.
All this happened early last De
cember; the generals trenches were
held for five months longer. Back O
his positions were woods, impene
trable, deep in snow, and into them h,
was frequently obliged to send skirm
ishing parties to attack the rear o
the Polish Legion of Austria, whit
made frequent raids. The rumor some
how spread in the regiment to which
Lieutenant Radymno had belonge.
that he was with these l~egionaires ant
that he wen directed 6 number of tn,
raids and sudden attacks. The Rus
SLAMS were bitter, and many prison
ers captured were given short shrift
One Russian soldier named Destyatuk
who had belonged to the ''rotte
squad formerly commanded by Lieu
tenant Radymno, swore he had rec
ognized his former officer in the rank
of the enemy on n occasion.
The general, his uncle, never hear
any of these rumors, however.
One night late in March, when tn
snow still lay thick and a gale wa
blowing, the very company to whicl
the deserter had belonged was SUI
prised. The men had changed thei
quarters only the day before, havini
lost many in their trenches, and ha'
been sent to the rear This particula
raid was singularly bold. rapid an
desperate. The Russians were sui
prised in their sleep, and before the
could gather for a stand they wer
badly beaten. But at last there cam
succor, and then there was hard figh'
ing. chiefly with the bayonet on az
count of the uncertain light. Wit
half the little force slain, the Ru!
SLAMS finally got a small band of thei
foes into the church, and there, afte
a hand to hand struggle. DOL som
prisoners.
Uncle Condemns Him.
Among the prisoners was ia