Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-17
7hOrOugboesS and Close At
tention to Detail Shown in
All Defensive Operations in
Eastern Theater'
ARMY OPERATIONS ARE
ANAL LYZED BY BENNETT
Correspondent Rides Through
Driving SIeet Over AtrociouS
Roads to Get Line on Work
Of Soldiers,
=, LANES opoNNELL BENNETT.


utara Russia. March S.--Germany
i doing the intrenchlng Oh l's iIon,
Tier ON Russian territory now as wen
as ON It's own. a.. ..La,
From south to north the great KEY
cities of the eastern borders oi the
empire-Breslau, Posen' lhorh'
t,raudenz and koenigsbers-ar pro-
,e,ted and connected by marvellous
system of field fOruficatlons Whlch
make the whole region practcally
And far to the east and to the
smith Of the curving boundary the
fields of Russia are being cut up with
trenches by German troops occupy
inc such important towns as TINS one
ot Mlawa. which lies four miles over
the border.
The plains to the south and east
of Mlawa have been cleared OF ltlls-
slams for good ten miles. The as
lance is being increased by few
kilometers every few days, and the
hoom of the guns grows fainter ana
fainter.
Strategy of Germans.
So far as | can gather the situa-
finn the Germans are driving the
Russians back on the fortified town
Of prasnysch, some twenty miles 10
the east and little south OF us. Ihe
more [ study this northern scene Oh
operations in connection with tne
activities seventy miles to the soutn'
whence | have just come, the more
| begin to wonder whether the Ger
mans are not planning to take FRA
snvsch. clear the ground well to the
i east of that point, and then drop
southeast and come in on the PACK
Of Warsaw
That would relieve the troops IN
the Bolimow- Rdwka region tthe
etriangle of death") of carrying the
whole of the terrible burden of the
drive against Warsaw drive that
If il is directed solely from the west
must involve heavy sacrifices OF men,
Prasnyseh is only fifty miles north
Of Warsaw. If the troops now clear
ing the ground TO the east of MlaWa
can get well beyond Prasnysch ana
then make grand circle to the south,
and perhaps be joined by detach-
ments Of Slesians and Austrians un-
der General Woyrseh which, / sup
pose. ara now lying well to the east
Of Petrokow and the river Pilica, the
stupendous thing would be done ana
an ingathering far surprising the
Tannenberg harvest would be effect
ed
Wonderful War-mal<ing.
In any case a cnapter of wonder
full war making seems bound TO nc
recorded for the various drives east
ward can hardly fail to culminate IN
something tremendous at one POM
or another
Meanwhile in the Russian territory
It already has occupied Germany Is
looking to 1t that there shall be nc
Russian drives across the German
frontier That is the meaning of the
heavy intrenching now going on III
the snow covered but soggy helds tWe
miles to the south and east oi
Mlawa
This precautionary work is belnt
carried forward simultaneously VIII
The lighting in progress seven OF
eight miles farther east and south
and the grunts of the shovelers keel
pretty good time with the distant vol
leys
For its significance and for the
amazing rapidity with which II Il
done the work is worth a closer view
80 | rode out this morning to th'
new trenches with Won Rieben o
Berlin, who did not at all care tol
his job and wished his commandlnt
general would not be so thunderins
solicitous that correspondents shoui'
see everything
Mr.. Won Rieben's wife is an Eng
lsh lady, who now Us in England
and part Of his days work is to writ'
her cheerful letters telling her hov
safe and well he is. He speaks ad
mlrable English and so was able I
conlde to me his opinion of Ameri
cans who like to go floundering owe
had roads and through an icy ran
TO see earthworks.
Bad Wcathcr-Worsc Roads.
IL was in truth villainous weathe
and worse roads-alternate freeZinl
aud thawing of both--but on the wa
we met a ruddy, smiling old gentle
man who did not seem to min'
either.
lie was riding at the head OF
sreat retnue, but he was wearing
weather. beaten overcoat of gray
oihering in no detail, except that
seemed Older. from those the privat
soldiers wear.
50 | could not make him out at all
ut When our car drew near III
nurse and the old man had waved
gneery salute in our direction, Vo
aMeben half rose in his seat and said
1nten morgen, excellenz."
ENcellenz," said |. then why tn
private soldiers overcoat so niue
the worse for wear"
- One of his whims," Captain vo
deben replied. always wears it.. II
ulu General Won Wernitz and ] don