Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-22
War Correspondent Passes
From Headquarters of Won
Hindenburg Into Center of
Active Military Operations,
INTENSE COLD AND
CONSTANT DANGERS
Description of Country and
People in Russian Poland
Subjected to Terrific Inva-
sion of Cars Armies.
lily James O'Donneu nennettl
tCopyrght 1915. by the Chicago

'iN james opunncll Hennett1
Copyright 1915 By the Chicago
Tribune.l
Lowic2 Russia, Feb. ig.-You
would best put on all you have for the
ride We are going to take today
Even then you will be cold.
All you have, Il your equipment is
right. should include two suits OF
Woolen underwear and two pairs of
stockings, and you will make no mis-
take If YOU put on both shirts and the
four stockings; u woolen band TO go
around the middle of the body, thick
riding breeches reinforced with leath-
er. a wooden sweater, a well padded
Jacket either lined with chamois
skin or going over Chamois skin
waistcoat. leather legglnps, long
overcoat, fur-lined and fur-collared;
fur-lined gloves which will strap over
the oyercoat sleeves--this last as YOU
viii discover In the first twenty miles,
Is very important. close fitting, fur
lined hood Of black leather, such as
the aeroplane men wear--and don't
forget the leather face piece that but
tons across IL, and a cloak OF thin rub
her--so thin that when you are not
wearing IL, Il can be carried in a coat
pocket
Must Wear Goggles
Not because of dust but because
the eyes must be protected from wind
ana snow, you must have motor gog-
giles. and be sure 10 get IA pair pro-
vided with the new kind of tough
glass that does not splinter when
struck by a flying clod
What with the knapsack you must
take on these trips. rug is going TO
be bothcrsome to carry in case you
have any marching to do but in the
auto II VIII be worth all the trouble
II may later cost. The most trying
part of these lOO and 200-mile iaunts
Is the misery from cold feet.
Eleven hours Of pretty steady
wretchedness are ahead Of us--hours
OF surprising interest, and Of large
pictorial value, too. If YOU are inter-
ested in the wayside and countryside
evidences OF the great Teutonic strug-
gle To keep Russia from sweeping into
the farest provinces Of eastern Ger
many-the supreme Teutonc strug-
gle against the Slavs since the Teuton-
ic Knights Of S. Mary were over
thrown by Poles and Tartarg at Tam
nenberg sos years ago last July.
Going 10 battle-ground.
Before we get back TO Posen, please
God, we shall visit that same battle-
field of Tannenberg, where only last
August Teutons and Slavs met again,
but with results profoundly other
wise
Into Russia from the ancient Po-
lish capital of Posen, we are going to
the ancient Polish Russian town of
Lowez, whore. as we lie shivering in
without pane Of glass in
the windows we shall hear the Aus
trian 30-centimeter guns roaring all
night long at Bolimow. ten miles
away, and Bolimow is less than forty
miles from Warsaw.
Going by the highways, as we shall
go, our ride Will cover between t30
and l40 miles. In ordinary times and
Ia ordinary weather an nuto would
easily do the distance in five hours.
Now, the times being troubled and
pregnant with delays. we shall be
eleven hours on the road.
Leaving Posen at In the morning,
We shall be lucky enough IL we reach
..oWicz at in the evening--in time to
aunt quarters ana some food before It
IS pitch dark That is barring acci-
Tents Tho roads are shocking. and
accidents are probable.
Unusual Architecture.
On the way we shall pass through
he important Polish Russian towns
# Slupca Golna, konin, Koklo, Klo-
lava, Krosniewece, Kutno. import
mt as Polish Russian towns goa
ouch of atrangeness about them:
.reeu ana gold in the outer walls, and
quat cottages of stone and plaster
,ainted q bright blue
Hints pf Russia, too, In the tall as
r0khau caps of the farmers plotting
heir low hung wagons through the
eep ruts, ana in the long, black
owns ot the Polish and Russian Jews
landing in the doorWays of their
lark shops, their arms folded and
hey peering furtiyely out at the pa-o
cant of conquest rolling steadily by
u day and every day.
We shall rush through market
Uares where brass samovars, rest
ng On boards laid over trestles, are
ending up faint wreaths of blue
moke In one village square
ountcd forty. tended by short legged.
road backed Polish and Russian
fomen and patronzed by beaming
ierman soldiers. who paid pfennigs
or cups of scaldine ten that. If it was
ot much as to flavor was at least
warming, and therefore a blessing.
Through Silent Region.
For hours unon hnurs we shall go
lunging through regions as silent as