The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-16
Russians Receive Printed Doe
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They Wish to Use.
HOME MISSIVES IN VERSE
ny DR.. WOLF Won sCHIEU BR Ann

occasion.
II has been my good fortune to be on
friendly terms for some months past
with the medical administrator OF Re-
serve Hospital twar hospital) No. 12 In
this city. Just now there are two Sc
verely wounded Russian soldiers there.
one OF them. a sergeant. is the owner Of
n small peasant estate near Tula. I
will call him Pavel pavlovitch. The
other day he was so far recovered that
he could write q letter 10 mis- family at
home. The salient portions | translate
verbatim
DEAR ONES This comes from the
slave OF God. you relative. Pavel Paw
lovitch. who ls now n prisoner and
wounded In a lazaretto OF the Austrians
in a town called wieno. a fair town,
chief capital of the country. with many
handsome, we'll clad men and women In
It, beautiful buildings, n 30 clean. oh.
so clean Do not worry about me.
They had to cut on one Of my legs at
the knee. but I have a crutch and can
hobble about. This happened at a charge
in the Uzok Pass. where our Captain,
God and st. Vladimir forgive him.. was
urging us on the trench of the Aus
trians, until a bullet came and crushed
me. May all the saint pardon him
he was wrong. But the enemy. the
A%ustrians, have treated me well. yea,
as well az their own.
Greetinss TO His Parents.
Now tell my wife. Evdokia Feodo.
rovna, not to worry. I'll be as good rs
new when I am exchanged and leave for
home. and I shall be able to do good
work yet. exoept %ploughing and thresh-
ing. How are the two yearlings? Are
they well? And the SOW. the dear. FAT
one-has she had young since I left
home in july And how Is my hon
ored father and my mother? I bow be
fore them to the old ground. And how
Is little Ivan Paviovitch, our youngest
Has he had the measles Finally. how
II EvdoN,a Feodrovna. my wife? Il
she busy. ms she ought TO be? Does
she spin and bake bread and make
stltchee Cabbage soup) as we'll as ever
"On the whole. war II not pleasant
Too many are killed and often one has
to go hungry for days. In Galic'a
everywhere we came We arrived too late
Our men had burned down the izbas
peasant huts) and the villages and
drunk up all the vodka and left moi
even a crumb. But everywhere We e
we make these peasants in Galicia goot
orthodox Christians. You may tell the
IOUt, III Y EtVotoh "
from me. II will cheer him. Yot
may write me here. !nclose q piece
Of paper with address, And thus Goo
and St. Vladimir protect you all ant
me too. "PAvEL PAvLovIrcH."
As a sort Of postscript he wrote:
They give me enough to eat here
but no tea TO drink, only coffee. which II
| almost as good. I bow me to the cold
ground before my father and mother
| Don't give Theodore Arsenovitch too
much 10 drink when he calls for thu
news. He has n very dry gullet'
Hfs Letter IN Verse.
This letter was an unaided product
I On the other severely wounded Russian
prisoner was found a curious document
a printed formula for letter writing, tn
kind, I am told. which all Russian sol
diers In the field must use In order Z
have their missives pass the censor. ]
is quito a production. and the writer !
at liberty to pick out portions or us'
the whole. About half OF the Who'll
/. In verse. select some CHARACTERISED
fragments. both In verse and prose. tn
epistle starts In thus:
or you. my parents. think l..
And you to see wish !.
bnt We WI. nc !. rsiy Austrisn
Then I viii return 10 you.
Fre'sn'ed VIII" p''"'''
Brav. fellows are the Russian soldiers.
They spit upon bullets and shells.
They are also ~h.rp.hSo'sa.
The Germans ana Aus'nAns @s mo"
~. 1own v,iS:,m h.s vaxsd hi, mus
y" tache tisht,
And it Is from sorrow and worry that h
wits TOO arc tu.nsu. .om. IN !,
aaa"' ,aS.n nr,,oners-th
an" van W 49,. n,h.r. ~. "a
levi axe me II Know
pun them All Nv my 81.
dear parents 70 sec me "s~"
That the Austrians have rcd trousers Of
whence W call them red dsvilA
And that our Russians have smart h~d
fea' e"h"'"s' '"s'' ""'
we shall give the Germans. thoa
noor stupid fellows. much trouble b.
for. IVA ara dome with them. but the
hava on,y Themselves 10 blame.
r,.v .n.u Hnov and bs,isv.
with whom they have begun ar; -
They indeed wanted 70 Mek us. -
but behold they ,nem,e,vrc Iu" ~"s'
IT,. .,,n. 10,
am toia 'ha' sue'' prin'eu s,,p
been FOUND AZ an s,a 10 compos,
upon many RUSSIAN oeao OF "ou"ueu'
war Dog q Victim.
,.. ,,,,
Here 10 ano'her n,'e s'ory vi ao, ",
soldier IRE picked VI ieee",ly, 4,
army. snee iast ~
gust, mas FORMED d DOG prisaue, us,i
police dogs. There are aul,e u nunhp'
OF exceileh'' hishiy ihteIi'se"t a"'na'
Dobermann terriers tp'dcks anu .a1,