Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-03-26

Journal under the hcadlnE, I'M"
russian Country with Won Hlnden-
bufg's German Forces
Lowicz. Russia, Feb 23.-Corre-
spondents at the front. like old men
or perhaps only feeling old because
for them 80 much is crowded into mt
flo whiles-loVe To tell their troubles
Some of them do it to the submerg-
ing of anything so trivial as either
national or international aspects ol
this grievous war They make the
telling quite a neighborly affair, as
frankly. | am in some sort trying TO
do in these letters from Lowiez.
Well. there may be some color IN
this Kind of stuff, and it may help 10
give an intimate view Of general con
ditions ,hat the reader would not
otherwise quite catch. So / go back a
little for this article to the nlsht OF
my first arrival in Lowicz
Arrives New Years Eve.
II was New Years eve, our ana
tho German New Years eve, not the
russian, which is reckoned by Jullus
Caesars calendar and comes twelve.
days later. "Sylyesterabend," the
Germans call the Gregorian New
Years eve. but under no name could
YOU make it very festive in Lowicz in
1914
TO be landed at nightfall in a town
in the Russia war zone win slN'E
pounds Of baggage on your PACK anu
no place TO go but out is the least IKE.
holidaymaking Of any of the war pas
times.
You report yourself to the com
mander of the town, and he is grave
" polite, but not optimistic as 10 tlle
chances of quartering YOU WIN thc
dignity supposed to be due the ptaIt 81
of an order form the general star III
Berlin and a letter from the Iot-
eign office. 10
In fact, having a whole town IN 'he
enemys country on his mlnu' ne
shows signs Of abstraction Wheh
comes to considering the problems oi
foreigner who cannot bear arms ana
who subjects the highly organlzeu
German language to desolatlng eNpei-
iments.
Escorted by Sergeant.
Having examined the "bcfehl from
the general staff and the bite from
the foreign office, he turns you oNel
to a sergeant. who is instructed 10
take Won to the officer who has Decll
placed over the correspondents
With the sergeant you march ou' VI
the commandants presence anu
through half a mile Of dark slippery
streets The sergeant is carrying the
sixty pounds now, through why ne
should do so, except that he seems ~
like il. / never could discover.
with him you fall upstairs anu
down courts until you reach the looli'
where the officer to whom the collJ-
spondcntS are burden Is quaItei w
His servant answers the door anu ~
makes him affiction les lut I Iilll
sehr leid") that the herr haupt'''a'l,,i =
Is gone to SkiernicWice ana wiz ''0
return until tomorrow midday. ..o.
At this the sergeant uehpVl az !,
with himself, and finally taxing YOU W
house which is at the moment ,iiip
ty, but every bed, couch, ana Snan. .'i'.d
down in which has an officer s"oLu
laid across II That means that the
officer has gone to look Tor sollttn''i.7 e e
to cat and that meanwhile the oeu L
reserved, pending his return
Relative In America
You wander around in the uaIN y
getting snubbed and misdirected uH'
til you encounter the beamin8 solule'
with the inevitable brother-in- Jaw o'
Wells street. or the cousin in Mll"au
kee, or the uncle who went TO Clnclil u,
natl twenty years ago. ou "ou,V .,,
give twenty marks if you knew an'
one of the three, but, says the oeaili
ing soldier, you might nave Know
them or you may vet know lilei''
and that satisfies him. ...i,t
He and the sergeant CONFER VIZ. WI,
great animation and many 'JaWohis'
with the result that you ran uoW
more courts and up more STAIRS utt. %
you reach a house lacking "lliuoN
glass and heat, but still mousse ""'
having a dry floor .,..,.ore,
In truth anything less uhsnei'et ~, :,
than the public square loohs I'm,
heaven by this time. Besides VIZ,
you think of the Russian prisoners
sleeping in straw in the cold Gnu, ,.' ~
it makes you ashamed to be queI u'oU
about anything.
Four Beds in Room.
In the house is a room that 'ooN p1
as il it might have once been pari
parlor. A cot and couch that a.
sound and a cot and an iron oeu .ia lia
sag to the floor and rock IKE crdu'e
when you sit on them NAVE
pushed into the room.
Save for two mattresses there II ~
sign of bedclothing. But you nov
with unholy JOY, as the serseaH
swings his pocket lamp arounu Wv
room. that at one window hangs