Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-18


fThIs is the last letter Of series
CONCERNING the everyday side of the
NE of the German troops fighting ON
Russian s0ll)
Mlawa. Russia. March 1.-TWO OF
the Young German officers with
whom | am auartered in this dreary
russian town were bending over a
fable in the lamplight last evening
and closely examining an object which
commanded their enthusiastic COM
ments
'see how light it is said one, and
so small that it can be slipped INTO
any pocket. It's really wonderful.
man could carry it anywhere.
"Yes and strong, too SAID the
other "and has both parts. It's Tine.
Was il expensive?@
"No-not when you consider what
you gel" IN
smooth object a pat and slipped IL
into his pocket.
Lovers of Books.
Was il a new automatic pistol. or a
novelty i'm pocket lamps, or compass
that the young German officers were
examining so eagerly
Ii was not.
If was a thin paper edition of
Faust" both parts in one volume),
bound in limp leather and printed In
clear type.
Their enthusiasm over it is referred
to Sir Arthur Doyle, who also loves
hooks
eT Wilhelm Meister in the
same form, said the owner OF the
copy of Faust adding. These edl-
tons are boon to soldiers. a man
can take them right into the
trenches
This lieutenant knows great many
things beside standard German litera-
ture. He can tell you Just how TO au-
lust straps so as to distribute the
weight of the rucksack equally ana
what kind of leggings are the best ana
how TO carry your pocket lamp SO
that the snap will not move when the
lamp is in the pocket.
This is an important warning ana II
you don't heed it you are likely 10 De
carry a lighted lamp quarter OF 4
day and to discover that there is no
chrrent left when night comes.
Wonderful Phone Operator.
There is clever man, too, at the
Mlawa military telephone exchange
which connects trenches, battalions,
regiments, brigades and divisions all
along the firing line, and with Berlin.
His hours of duty are ten a day-ahu
as many more as emergencies may de-
mand.
| have never listened to an operator
at once more expeditions and more
composed, and even when his voice i
husky with weariness he keeps ms
temper Come to find out, this sol
der-operator is in civil life rlcf
merchant in Hamburg.
One of my hosts at Mlawa quarters
Is young DR.. julius Meier -Graefe, ar
critic in Berlin in civil life, at preseh
lieutenant in the ambulance corps
he loves Paris and does not rellsl
making war against the French, ano
often gets orders at 10 o'clock at mgh
which keep him out on the roads III
dawn searching for parties of wound
cd who are reported to have lost theli
way, or, perhaps, to have been cap
tured by the Russians.
Anyway, they have not come In a
the hour they were expected. an'
It is the doctor of philosophy and crit
les business to find out why.
Chrome of Gar Defaccd.
A chrome of the cZar that hangs II
room, now converted into store
room, Of one of the corridors of thl
big white government building ma
been defaced--half the face tori
away and the strip lying on the floor
This is the only evidence of a wantol
act ! have seen in all my days VIII
the German troops.
As to the rest the discipline of mill
uary life appears to be strictly main
tained. One falls asleep to the cease
less tramp of sentries in the darl
street and one occasionally wakes u
TO the snpteAOf the six soldiers in tn
next room, or the sighs of the ar
critic when he is routed out of hi
warm bed at in the morning to loo
for the wounded.
The chief physician in charge of tn
long lazaret train which is standin
IN the freight yards at Mlawa was dis
Tessed when ! came down to see hi
uain, For his is not one of the ne'
model hospital trains, but a movin
azaret, constructed from old passer
ger cars, and so lacking any of IN
ueVlees for comfort and sanitatio
winch ali the new cars have.
i am afraid" he said, that I ca
only show YOU how things should nt
pc nut perhaps it is we'll that yo
should get an idea of how the systei
WORKS under disadvantages
Scenes In Hospital.
fo.io@ed iis three ol four Luthera
pastors who had come to chat wit
.he sick and wounded. he led I
through train of twenty-five car