The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-12
By BYRON LoMAx.

old and new-trade. There are many Jews, mostly good-looking, often with fair hair and red boards. They wear the dressing gown "khalat." The Jews know about the countess ant-semite hotel but speak charitably of the coun- tess. Bielostock has not one decent dim ing place, but it has several dirty eat ing halls which sell champagne at s5 bottle. The town is dirty, mean and tedious It resembles the worst parts of Manchester Eng.
 BieloStock is full of wounded, doctors, Red Cross sisters. There are thousands of men making soldiers oyercoats with extraordina long sleeves. In the long sleeves the gloveless soldier with draws his hands, and so he keeps them warm. That hampers his aim with the rifle. Bielostocl also makes soldiers boots; very good boots, and portianki, oblong napkins which soldiers wear in- stead of socks. Also it makes bash luiks' for keeping the ears from frost bite. Tramp, tramp, tramp down the street before the biggest boot factory goes regiment of third reserve men, just called out. They are older and com pare i'll with the active regiments; also vita first reserve men. But they have good humor Every Russian soldier laughs To Bielstock as to Wilma the characteristic of war is Interesno!' It's
 interesting.
 The medical association of Poland has a hospital at Bielostock. It is big, clean, three-storied building, with an all. tumnal garden and three gnarled oaks knock at the door and inquire for Dr. Gordon. Only in Scotland and in Polish ghettos tlourishes the Gordon clan. He is q sharp-faced. stout. kindly Jew, who | abandoned a big practice in Warsaw in | order to attend to wounded heroes. He tells the clean hospital month ago was a tenement house where Bielostock' g dirtiest beggars and thieves herded. Its construction made it suitable for a hos pital. It was so dirty that pessimists said a years work would clean it. In a week pr. Gordon cleansed it. white
 washed it and expelled it's immemorial odors
 In this hospital l saw 50 wounded 32 of them with bad wounds There is a 1 mana hero. too-who has all his lower jaw taken off by shell. yet he is likely to live. His face is so terrible that no one. except doctors and nurse, sees it.
 There is the Cossack Piotr Alioshin. who is alive though minus both legs. Alioshin lost his legs in an unexampled way. His unit got into melee with Austrian dra- Soons. While Aloshin, his long lance couched charged ahead, Austrian swords men slashed at his right and left, and
 at the same time took off both legs Ho l ACii VII HIS HoIScf DuL He was TecONeTeQ alive. He owes his life to the horse. His
 horse. with a bullet through the brain, fell upon him, and the weight of its neck upon his leg stumps stopped the bleed ing. Near him lies an infantryman with
 the skin of his head and all his hair
 burned off, the result of shell. "He suf- fered," says Dr. Gordon, "unheard of tor
 nent but though he groaned day and night, he never complained. It was one of those cases that You feel tempted to cure with a big dose of morphia To do l that We have no right. Now the private
 is better. His head may get back a kind
 of skin. without hair. He will wear a
 wig"
 1 I talked to the slightly wounded. They
 have no notion of how, when, why they
 were wounded, and can give no idea of
 their fights Except a man in the smart l Chevalier Guard, who was shot in the
 groin near Cracow. He says that the
 Austrians then put two battalions out
 or action. This was surprise The
 light Austrian horse, he adds. is daring
 and skilful.
 l After finishing the medical association hospital I make for the Jewish hospital All the patients are Jewish The Jewish question is great question for Bielstock which is almost the Jewish capital ol Poland. The Jews take a great part in
 the war and correspondingly suffer. Al first few fought. Russia sends her Polish regiments. in which there are many Jews
 to Siberia, for reasons of politics. When the Siberian regiments and with them the Polish regiments in Siberia were brought west to check Hindenburg'
 march on Warsaw, with them came s0o( of the Children of Israel. The Russian nationalists. who cannot forget their Jew
 batting zeal, said that the Jews would not fight. They were as disaffected as the rest of Russia's involuntary subjects
 In fact they fought eplendidly.
 Lieutenant General Alexyeyeff who has himself been decorated lately for bold
 leadership, says in a speech made al
 Skierniewice: Some of the bravest