Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-12


German soldier, his face0imercifully
covered by a coat. Thence onward
the field Is strewn with Russian dead.
In many places the bodies lay in rows
along the road, the faces always COW
cred.
The work has not progressed as
far as the trenches around the forts.
There the dead lie as they fell. Many
Of the bodies are stretched at full
length on the earthen shelves of
trenches, their heads resting on their
arms 1t is as If they sleep. In the
woods nearby cuckoos are calling.
Shell Horror Seen.
Where shells struck among massed
Russians the scene Is too horrible for
description, and ] can only say that.
long contemplation of II would drive
man mad Even soldiers used TO
such sights are struck dumb or have
recourse to three words, "Dass list
krieg. (That Il war;, which for
them tells the whole story.
Farther on the scene loses its aspect
OF human tragedy and becomes mere
ly sickening, for here a group of
caisson horses has been torn to
pieces and their heads are strewn.
lamong the trees. e4a-
Behind the lines of trenches aban7
doned cannon still stand, and small
arms and ammunition that could be
gathered by the hushel have been
ground into the earth by the feet OF
the fleeing troops.
Moved From Fire Zone.
On the load to Jarosau is a long
procession OF peasants who are being
moved out of the fire zone, both for
naf L. aa Il
bic leakage of information advan-
tageOus to the Russians Men are
driving forward herds of lony-horned
Galieian cattle; women struggle for
ward with babies at thc..ss naked
breasts; children are carrying bits of
pottery and other household goods;
old women are being transported in
the wicker baskets of farm carts.
Colts piss and geese run wildly
among the throng
do not see one of the weary
people shed tear. The only sound
they make is the cries of the long
haired peasants, driving the frantic
cattle At times the scarlet bodices
and skirts of bare-legged women give
the scene almost a festiveiaspect. 1t
is like comic opera troupe gone to
chaos.
Mothers have cut branches from
trees and these they lay over their
babes to shield them from the sun.
Troops Follow Refugees.
Following the refugees come troops,
troops, troops, az far as the eye can
carry.
Cannoneers are swaying with sleep
on the six and ei8ht-horse gun car
riages. Hungarian cavalry has taken
two poppy flecked fields on one side
of the highway, and uhlans with the
Prussian black and white nuttering
from their lances are moving amid
standing grain on the other side. In
| fantry is trudeing through the dust,
the face of every man streaming with
| perspiration and every uniform Is
powdered.
Battalion flags are sheathed in oil
cloth. Wagons carrying pontoons
make sounds like approaching thun-
der. Scores of pieces of heavy artil
lery follow. The pet dog of each
company surveys the scene from the
4 baggage wagon.
Marching TO Battle.
All these troops are marching to-
1 ward the operations progressing north
! of Jaroslau from fifteen klometers
| t9.2 milesl to twenty kilometers Q2.4
! mles) distant. The rumble of the
cannonade up there is incessant
\ Weiglo summed up the significance
of these tremendous movements
about Przemysl in his charcteristical-
| ly terse way;
ITS fine life. Go out and shout
your way into town and then pile
back"
Bosnian and Tyrolian horses load
ed with mountain guns are the
| charming features of this war pag-
cant. Its terrible features are farm
wagons loaded with Russian wound
ed, whose uniforms and emergency
handages are drenched with blood.
Many of these wagons are driven by
| women
Russian prisoners are being
marched forward in detachments of
1000 each The German officers
speak well OF them, calling them
'gutmuetig'' good natured), and de-
claring them to be not bad fellows.
| Passing the streams outward bound
! from Przemysl are bodies OF the Ger
man landstrum marching into the
! city TO do police work
From Jaroslau to Przemysl, dis
lance of thirty kilometers (ls6
| miles,, the track of the last fort
nights fighting is still unbroken.
| The few houses still standing are alb
solutely riddled and whole villages
have been obliterated
Al Radymno a huge church was