New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-17

The doctor was angry. lie knows as
we'll "a anybody the Highlanders
Quetre Bras and Waterloo record TWO
days fighting. with loss in killed ana
wounded Of one colonel, one major Xxx
captains. fourteen lieutenants:, SIX en-
signs. thirteen serRcants, and so on
lie looked straight into the eyes Of the
surly spokesman OF the hlgnlanders
and said:
"Thirtcen officers Of the Gordon
Hiqhlanders and none wounded. lhshh
YOU"
The last two words with the upward
London tilt and on those words the
doctor slammed the door.
81 shouldn't have said it, nc re-
marked 10 me. but their stupid super
ciliousncss 10 man whose only wiah
was 10 help them was more than !
could let pass
For one thrust like that YOU see
numberless instances Of the most kind.
" feeling, as when long tralnload o.
prisoners was held for ten minutes
while a naIseated and cruelty wounded
Frenchman was lifted out OF freight
car and carried by two French soldiers
and one German soldier 20 a sheltered
place fifty feet away where he could
be sick without shame.
Most Of the hardShips prisoners have
TO endure are confined TO the nouns
Immediately following their capture or
10 the stufy days Of transit from the
front 20 the military prisons IN Ger
many.
The confinement pending the arrival
Of the trains In which they are TO MAKE
the Journey is the hardest part ana
during one Of those waits saw twenty
one Frenchmen and six Belgians packed
into a low ceilinged room thirteen by
thirteen feet. They w~re there two days
and two nights, except for three hour
interval i'm the morning. when they
were taken out 20 clean the streets o.
Beaumont
The number OF prisoners 81 war IN
Germany to-day exceeds 100000. In
March alone over $4,000 were taken.
Yesterday the Austrians gathered m
300 Russians in the Carpath ans, Ou'
the number was not sufficient % arouse
iubilant comment in Germany.
4 Million Capuyes in Germany.
The feeding Of these hundreds OF
thousands Of adults must be an enor-
nous burden for an empire that is urg,
inc upon even the children the coun sel
that not 10 waste is truly to serve the
fatheriand in it's time of trouble.
Thinking of that, asked German
officer why Germany had maze no ad-
vance in the matter Of general eA-
change of prisoners. He wInked cheer
/ FULLY and said. at is not worth while"
4 million prisoners, and the number
/ ever growing. undoubtedly is going 20
prove no negligible factor when the
/ warning powers begin to discuss terms
OF peace. =,
Only certain prisoners o. the No
: hammedan faith have been released,
/ so the gossip runs. and they have been
sent back TO the East on the strength
/ Of their plea 20 be allowed TO join the
/ Turkish army.
/ The most dramatic. as we'll as the
most unexpected, individual capture
! made by the Germans was the seizure
3 of the Governor Of Warsaw, who rode
/ serenely to his fate in an automobile
with footmen IN livery and proclaimed
/ himself as "eXcellcuz" when he rose
from the back seat and handed his re
/ volver over 20 a PruSsian Lieutenant
: of Dragons
There have been two versions OF this
/ capture BY chapce during my wander
ings along the east front | happened
20 hear a third account, whlcn, IL Is
now pretty generally agreed. is the
correct one. CLEANED it from soldiers
who had il first hand from dragons
who played a part in the capture.
It happened on the road from Kutno
to Lowicz, and the Governor was not
travelling under the protection of the
Red Cross. nor was he taken from a
train of automobiles by al Austrian
private after hand-to-hand fight.
Motors Straight TO Capture.
Kutno is a typical enough Polish
, Russian town Of $4,000 inhabitants. A
pretty good road connects it with Lo-
wicz, which is twenty-five miles east
by little south. Along this DAD the
/ Governor Of Warsaw was riding east
ward in an automobile on the morn
ing Of his capture, confident, of course,
that the whole countryside WA n the
hands of the Russians. But the fact
was that the best part of the Russian
force supposed to be holding the Kutno
end Of the road TO Lowicz was safely
locked up in the big white church at
Kutno. and had been there for more
than three hours.
Early in the morning German cav