Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-30
LOCAL WEATHER HFpORT.

north portion.
LOCAL. WEATHER REPORT.
Maximum temperature. SO degrees
minimum, Jl degrees. range. 80 de-
srees. temperature at D. m, 75 de-
grees, southeast winds, partly cloudy
trace of rain.
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often they are i'm perfect condition.
Here the officer had tried to break
his sword before throwing il into the
ditch. but he has only succeeded in
bending il double
Russ Try TO Hide Identity.
Everywhere is litter of red
shoulder straps which the men have
torn from their overcoats so that the
number of their regiment should not
be disclosed when they We're taken
prisoners
Many square yard of the freight
yards lying "a mile from the citadel IS
bedded with shrapnel A trainload of
linseed cakes for cattle is burning
Shells ana lime, reels of barbed wire,
and thousands of bushels of grain are
sizzling and melting.
Not one touch of waste, of ruin, or
.of squalor is lacking in this picture,
and the details Of wreckage range
from the minutest to the most cOlos-
sal, for at one point the Russians tried
to send one of their heaviest guns
across "a Viaduct two miles from tho
fortress. The yiaduct sank five feet,
the track gave way. ana the gun now
awaits the arrival of German engi-
neers.
Take Many Prisoners.
There are So many prisoners that
often the Germans cannot keep them
herded, ana YOU get the strange con-
trast of passing a column of 10000
prisoners flanked by perhaps 100
guards. and then coming on 60 a lone
Russian soldier who is padding along
through the mud i'm search of some
body to capture him
With captain and Mr.. Conger Of
the Associated Press passed one such
individual.
Poor soldier the captain said
, nobody wants him. win not you
gentlemen be so kind as to capture
him?'
Mr.. Conger speaks Russian, and he
questioned the man, but got no am
swers more illuminating than that
somebody had told him to go some
where So we all salutcd and the waif
of war splashed onward TO his highly
indefinite destination.
saw one column OF probably 1000
prisoners who appeared to be both
guarding and guiding themselves
There was not a German within a
( thousand feet of them and no German
with them when at a command from
one of their own officers they swung
off the plain and down the road Lead
ing into a stretch Of woods.
Kaiser an Hour on Ground.
The emperor spent on hour amid
these scenes this afternoon, attended
I by Generals Hindenburg, Beseler.
Falkenhayn and Mueller and fol-
loy6d by his body guard Of riflemcn
/ in an antobus.
The emperors face was radiant eX-
cept when he passed new made
graves when ne slowly saluted.
Sven Hedin, whom the emperor
called to his auto. says it is proper for
him to say nothing more than that
the conversation was about the war
and that his majesty was very conf
dent and happy General linden
burg's face was ashen, as always, and
his eyes were weary.
Troops Roar a Greeting.
At the end Of the ceremony Of the
kaisers parade the emperor's automo-
bile. with the imperial standard fly
ing, was rushed down the highway
from the lane to the fortress, through
/ lines Of squealing pigs scared hens,
staring peasants, and wide-eyed good
natured prisoners who saluted him