Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-17
RIFLE SHORTAGE
GREAT TROUBLE
Of CAR S ARMY
American Mining Engineer Be-
feves That When Difficulty
Is Remedied Two Million
More Men Can Fight
.,...,I.led DO. corrc.pondenesl

,a.1on Nov 3.-"Russia is now
.,ssrpo only for want of rifles and
.sso she is properly supplied, at
w., tvo million additional soldiers
m ri. thrown into the field with re-
.I.s which only next springs cam
nv, can tell This is the opinion
y promlnent American mining en-
.,.cer who has Just returned to Lon
5.a after spending six months IN the
p,ssiar empire. mainly in Siberia
80 ne Is the chief engineer of an
'r,nortanf group of mines. Descrlb-
eanditlons I'm Russia he said The
s hS which prevailed outside
Up.issis during the great German drive
,hroreh Poland was never really du-
Voted In that country Domestic
,.onbles existed as always. but the
soonle have made their power felt
y never before, and the only thing
~, conld cause revolution now would
NJ the conclusion of an untaVoraole
pe,ce with the central powers.
"The people of Russia are enjoying
.omethlng in the nature of a BOOM
and the cost Of living of the Russian
peasant who does not require lux
arias has not appreciably increased.
me Russian peasant is not an imagi-
native individual, and the losses suf-
sored in the war have not greatly inn
nressed him And besides. the losses
inourred in the great retreat were I'M
boBeyably small, when the magnitude
N ire fighting is taken into consid
Grafton. Even the generally admitted
shortage Of rifles. the WaStagc OF
which has been unprecedented. is not
rausing the Russians much concern,
as the staff has realized that the rifle
used BY infantry is not an effective
arm The Russian army Is now well
supplied with heavy guns and NUM-
tons and the infantry is being sup
plied with thousands of machine guns
In attacking, the Russian infantryman
almost invariably detaehes the bayo-
net from his rifle and uses il as q
knife when he leaps into the German
trenches. He has even been known 20
discard both rifle and bayonet rely
Ing on club TO win a trench.
Prisoners Used In Mines.
For the greater part OF the war
We have used Austrian prisoners as
miners In our mines, but lately we
have been receiving Germans from
the government prisoners labor bu-
reau These Germans in the main
are absolutely unfit for hard labor,
NEST Of them being old men with
gray boards. while others are Of the
student class. many Of them wearing
glasses with thick lens. staff Of
fcer who is closely connected with
the prisoners bureau, told me that
for some time on the Dvlnsk front
the Russians have been capturing
from one to two hundred women
weekly These were all in German
uniform and were apparently serving
as soldiers.
IN Peuograd I entered the recent
" opened museum Of atrocities, but
the horrors displayed there were too
much for me- and feeling deadly i'll
was compelled to leave the place
without seeing the complete display,
out was allowed to bring to England
an Austrian rifle cartridge loaded with
an explosive bullet, which is really
a miniature shrapnel shell that ex-
plodes when a little plunger at the tip
driVen in by contact with a hui
man target
In the scandinavian countries
nothing was talked about except the
1901 shortage in Germany, and some
continuation Of this was given to me
W Dane who represents in Berlin
one OF the biggest American packing
,,ompanles. This Dane declared that
we lat allowance had been reduced
rum sln eleven to seven ounces person
ualy and ne stated that the German
SsWhhg population would have a diff
ucu't time getting through the win
W. on ms reduced allowance. This
lane also told me that England was
sm.lpplying It's prisoners In Germany
with food
III copenhagen I learned that the
International Harvester company had
sseVaued all Of its American employees
p. Olu Germany Austria-Hungary, Tur-
IVY and the Balkans and they are
ugng held in the Danish capital
waiting orders.
vlos o"lp2lng. owners in the Scandina-
t @h countries are making enormous
@S.tunes out Of the war and II is said
oso a W bergen alone this industry has
sna @'ou tWenly-seven new millionaires
nc noslllitles began"