Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-24
BY w. II. NEVISON
Especial War Correspondence)

WARSAW, Russia, Dec. 26.-(By
messenger TO Athens and mail to the
| United States. )-The longest battle In
the world-the second battle of Po-
| land-still RACES, adding day after
day to a record that Is already es-
tabllshed. Beginning November 1S
with a bloody fight at Wlo2lawsk, the
conflict continues, and every time the
calendar moves forward a day thou
sands more Of Russians, Germans and
Austrians find their last resting place
in tho valley OF the Vistula,
Apart from the suffering 1t is an in
terestlng, a delectable, battle to War
saw, not many miles distant-the goal
OF Hindenburg and the precious pos
session Of Russky.
At nightfall when tho air Is still
and the rumble of traffic quieted 1t is
| quite the proper thing TO gather in
J groups and listen to the boom of can
non in the distance. The horse play
and rough antics Of peasants amuse
tho bystanders.
| But the passing OF an ambulance
brings the clowns 10 their senses and
the vaudeville to an end, because this
| is real serious business, this war in
/ Poland. out at the frcnt soldiers who
escape bullets are freezing to death.
| Sentres turn to pillars of snow in the
| bliZZards. II is zero in the trenches.
| Russian winters are bad enough in
| times of peace; frightful In war.
| Also from the front comes the story
of absolutely the latest horror Of war
drugs.
The Germans are druggng the old
men Of the Landwehr with ether"
swears a wounded Russian captain
| now in q Warsaw hospital.
THE supplied men are compelled
! to advance over open ground against
/ the Russian trenches A witherng
| fire opens and they stumble blindly
forward, too senseless from the effects
Of the drug to seek cover. Soon the
entire line is annihilated and the real
attackers advance, using the bodies Of
/ their fallen comrades as cover That
was the original plan.
Prisoners belonging to the Land
wehr have had to be sobered from
the effects Of the drug by Russian
doctors"
A statement from General Souk-
homlinoff declares that the Germans
are sacrificing great numbers of sol
diers. His communication follows:
Partial displacements of our ar
mics recently effected between the
Nistula and the Warta rivers can have
no bearing upon the check that might
have been inflicted upon us by the
enemy in the course of battle eX-
tending over an enormous front.
Such occurrences In either direc-
tion are inevitable. Retreat at one
point Is compensated by an advance
at some other point Thus in the di-
recton Of Warsaw the enemy is eX-
hausting himself in vain attacks on
our Bzura positions, uselessly sacrl-
ficing considerable numbers of troops.
THE right bank Of the Vlstula has
been entirely cleared The enemy,
after serious defeat in-the region of
Mlava. has been thrown back upon
his own territory.
Tn south Poland and In eastsern
Gallcla the German offensive has been
stopped absolutely. Afl the efforts OF
tho garrison Of PrZemysl to force the
blockade have been defeated. Under
these circumstances there can be no
question of allowing Warsaw to fall
into the hands OF the enemy.
The untruths which the German
general staff is trying to spread may
find their excuse in the necessity OF
giving heart to the German people
and influencing the public opinion of
neutral countries In favor OF Ger
many. The civilized world has been
able to gauge their worth"
"A frail soldier, with large, intelll-
gent eyes, was brought to my atten-
tion," declares a Russian surgeon. de-
scribing the bravery OF the cars
! fighting men. His hand had been