Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-12-05
HUNGARIAN OFFICER
PRAISES the men OF
RUSSIA FOR ABILITY
Lieutenant Of General MaCken-
sen Gives Much Credit 10 the
Russian Soldier; Says lie Has
Been Much Maliuned.


BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec A. An
enthusiastic tribute to the russian
soldier and his leaders is paid by Cen
eral ARR, the Hungarian military lead
or who for five months was Macken-
sens chief lieutenant in the latters
Russian campaign. General ARR sum-
marizes his opinion Of the Russian en-
envy in a statement which be has Civ
en- TO the correspondent Of one Of the
Budapest papers. He says:
THE Russian military leadership
is energetic and determined, and
must acknowledge that in this respect
the Russians are quite up to date.
need not say that in fortifylrs posi-
lions and in retreating the- are eX-
ceadingly clever. Ar far az leld for
tihcations are concerned, VIC simply
adopted their methods. In their re-
treats the striking feature Is the way
they always manage to save their sup
ply columns Throughout the cam
paigu we succeeded IN capturing the
supplies of only one regiment togeth-
or with a field kitchen and the cooks.
THE Russian infantry soldier is We
ny good. He is an active. brave, and
determined soldier not afraid of
death. and those stories which assert
THAT their officers drive them into bat
! tie with machine guns arc all nursery
tales His individual merits are indis-
putable. Only 10 the mass does he
| fail. Russian soldiers are absolutely
/ dependent upon their yeader, and II
the leader fails they are lost. Their
officers. therefore, are much more bur
dened and have q greater task to per,
form than ours but 10 must be 5chnow
4 lcdged that wherever their officers
chose TO lead them the men put NJ
magnificent resistance.
"Thc Russian artillery Is excellent
II is indeed most annoying hut fortu
.nately we encountered always less and
less artillery as we progressed, ~
that towards the end Of the offensive
il was not dangerous any more What
ever artillery they had they shifted
far back for their main object wa.
that we should not take any more gun
from them. The Russian cavalry haC
little 10 do during the offensive
"The prisoners" continued the Gen
eral, whom / came across were al
handy and good-hearted people The,
never behaved N a hostile manner 10
wards us. nm - prisoners on 9th
er fronts, wa d not conceal thei
enmity and coiircmpt. AS / inspecte
the many thousanA Of Russian prison
ers / always found that they wer
hrst-class material In every way
Most of them we're tall, strong an
, healthy The only trouble is thei
inferior intelligence. ] studied ther
J carefully and I cav that they have III
tie knowledge Of events, and some {
them even thought that the Frenc
Emperor was coming on behind U
with his hosts and that We would b
crushed between the two armies.
, THE Russian counter-attacks weI
Z much stronger IN the beginning Of OF
o offensive than later on AS time pas
a ed these became weaker and MOI
;, rare. as the Russian reserves bega
{. 10 diminish My experience throug'
q out the campaign was that the Ru
y SLAMS were never totally short Of an
h munition They had ample artillel
r and infantry ammunitlons all the tim
I Whenever we took Russian position
~ We always found great quantiti'
there"