Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-15
(By Associated Press.)


that the staff of any army cares to al.
low a newspaper correspondent to OBJ
serve or write of its defeats and re-
treats; the field censor's motto is
Nothing Passes Except Good News"
The staff of the Russian third army
has broken the precedent in allowing
the freedom of its lines to the British
official press representative during the
whole of it's heart-breaking retreat
from the Carpathian slopes, back
across Galicia, and even across the
Russian frontier. The correspondent )
first story, covering long series f
daily fights and daily Russian defeats,
followed by the inevitable retreats be-
fore the Austro-Germans' concentrated
artillery fire, is as follows:
The advance of the Russians over
the Carpathians was sure to draw a
counter stroke, and it came just where
many expected it, but with tremend-
Gus force. This was because it was
not SO much the work of the tired Aus
TRANS, but rather the biggest effort
that Germany has yet put up in her
attempts to bolster her ally.
In a house standing high by a
church, found the staff of the divis-
ion. There was hut on the top Of
the hill; sitting in front of it one could
see for at least ten miles in either
direction. jI ~
The division was holding front OF
eight miles across a low line of wood
ed heights, of which the most marked
feature was village with little
church tower. Against three Russian
~Hegiments were nine, mostly German,
land backed by the most formidable ar
tillery.
Beyond each of the TANKS of the
division one could see at intervals
black clouds of smoke; one thick
stream of smoke that stretched into
the skies came from distant petroleum
works. The whole right wing was be-
ing pounded with crash after crash,
sometimes four black columns rising
almost simultaneously at intervals
along it; under each would break out
little angry teeth of sparkling flame;
the only thing that seemed not to be
hit was the church tower which, as
each cloud died down, came out simple
again in the bright sunshine. The left
wing was in patches of smoke that
sometimes disappeared for time.
What was happening to the center
was not so clear; so after watching
for some hours the shells and shrap-
mel bursting along the line and on
the slope, we descended by some wind
ing gullies, drawing a shrapnel as we
passed over low shoulder and soon
reached the staff of the center regl-
ment
: Under the nearest wall of hut, lit
tle groups were working at the tele-
phones. while a number of soldiers lay
ON logs around. The Colonel came Tor
ward and took me into the open point
ing at the ridge some six hundred
yards away. All his left was at grips
with fine enemy. and on his right his
men were fighting at the close range
of two hundred yards in the WOOD De-
yond the crest.
The telephone worked necessarily
Each, of the battalion commanders re-
rorted in turn-one that his machlne
guns had been put out of action an
Aother that there was gap IN MS HIS
\ third that he was holding goou d.
full strength. The Colonel explained
that his last reserves were ehsaeeu'
A MESSAGE came that his right HAHN
was open and was being turned ne
seized the telephone and calleo W.
companies forward at the double
porting his action directly to the S'ah
of the Division.
There was a peculiar humanheSS
about all these messages; in form tneS
were lust ordinary courteous col'0