Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-16

north portion. sunday probably fair
warmer In north portion
LOCAL WEATHER REPORT.
For twenty-four hours. ending at.
p. m. yesterday.
Maximum temperature, SO degrees;
minimum. 33 degrees, range, So ov-
grees, temperature at p m. so de-
srees. northwest winds partly cloudy
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is my seventh TO the front / didn't
believe, because ] couldn't believe,
that Germany was making Russian
prisoners in patches of 10000, 10000.
10000, half q hundred thousand.
Now ] believe IL because ] have seen
it, which may De q poor reason from
one point of view, but from another
il lis most conclusive.
The fact is that in Poland and Ger
many today the Germans have whole
tortresses and highways and pastures
fun of prisoners Where they had as-
sembled them i'm the fields on each
side of the railway leading into War
saw the effect was overwhelming IL
was like the pictures one used to see
i'm the school histories Of the United
states of the plains in the old days
when they We're traversed by herds of
buffalo. The dun brown uniform of
the broad backed Russians empha-
sized the resemblance. Ii was strange
how few guards We're needed Some
times one would pass "a quarter of a
mile of fields in which the prisoners
We're squatting or lying, and ono
would not see six German landsturm-
ers leaning on their rifles
But perhaps the greatest sight was
the column Of prisoners we passed
when we reached Novo Georgievsk.
The chaussee lnot a handmade two
thirds of the distance TO ordinary
country road. but a broad highway
was packed with men as far as the
eye could see. They came in ranks
never less than six men wide, and
sometimes they overlooked to the
bitches and paths alongside the chaus-
see. There were many straeglers from
WEAKNESS but the guards treated
them good naturedY
Gave Surly Answers.
Most Of the prisoners looked very
well and many of them smiled and
waved their hands in response to the
greetings they received when they
passed our autobus. once the column
halted and we mingled with the men,
noting their condition and equipment
Both were uniformly good. Conger
of the a F., who as told YOU,
speaks Russian. was the only of us
who could talk with them, and he
said they gave surly answers TO his
questions
The only touch of color in the long
procession was the bright scarlet
shoulder straps Of the under officers.
OFTEN these insignia Were missing.
The under officers had torn them off
before giving themselves up Farther
along we came upon places in the
road that were covered with these
bits Of cloth, which bore the regi-
mental "umbers
Japanese in Russian ArmN2
We could hardly believe our eyes
when we saw dozens of men Of dis
tinctly japanese type. The Monaghan
type we encountered frequently, for
that type exists in Russia, but the
presence Of the men who looked like
japanese was a poser and we decided
that we must be mistaken and that
these We're merely one more variant
among the myriads of Asatics who
give allegiance to the ear. But later
we met an underOfficer of artillery
from Berlin, and he said that not only
We're Japanese i'm Russian uniform
among the captured but that Japan
ese guns We're part of the enormous
booty. Whether he was right or not
| cannot say, but certainly the men
in question seemed to be Of the purest
/ japanese type.
All the time the 10000 were sweep
ing bv as the staggering thoueht was
i4t. Ia !, HpnTpHpIfaI
tie more than hundredth part OF
the total Of Russians whom Germany
and Austria hold prisoner
Sometimes the prisoners come m
small detachments, only q thousand
or so' ana that was more interestilng5
! i'm a way, because then the NINA
could assimilate the sight and the
eye make "a study of the faces.
Getting Motion Pictures.
These smaller files swung slowly
! into view from far down the ROAD
and always one knew there were
prisoners coming because, before
uniforms could be distinguished, one
would catch sight of lazy move
ment of the white and black pen
nants OF uhlan lances and wouia
realize that it was for some sood
reason that the uhlans We're rlulnR So
slowly There would be columns OF
200. 500, 500. or 1000 prisoners
marching toward Warsaw, with from
half a dozen to a score of uhlans rid
ing slowly at the side Of each column.
| Once our captain signaled the uHlans
! to halt a column so that the mollol,
picture operator of the party coulu
photograph it, MA
thus / got good look into the
faces of the Russians-strong' heaVy'
honest faces most of them were
large heads. well set on we'll shaped.
powerful bodies, and long legs oil
good easy stride. Many of the ltus-
4 sian soldiers / have seen-and nay e
seen thousands upon thousands lh
/ the last few days-were men OF al
most gigantic stature. They convey p,
"a the impression that once reused
they would be terrible in single manu-
Oh combat for as individuals they
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