New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-15
Allies Will Quit Before
Winter, Say Germans
Believe Harvest viii Put Fatherand in Such Good
Condition That War VIII End
Before Snow Flies.
By JAMES O'DONNELL BENNETT.

NELL BENNETT.
The reason Of all the splendor is the
arrival of the eight military attaches
from Italy. Spain. Sweden. Switzerland.
Rumania, United States, Argentina and
Chill, who have come shudderlng IN
after a bleak but fascinating day on
the already classic BATTLEFIELD OF Tan
nenberg.
The dinner is long and lively. More
surprising to everybody than the pro
fusion Of white table linen is the less
profuse but very welcome supply OF
white bread. Champagne, too, OF which
the greater part is warmly pressed
upon the guests of the evening
The staff is so glad to see some new
faces and hear some new talk that the
officers sit ut table till nearly midnight,
when the attaches have 70 leave on the
special train which the German govern
ment had assigned to them for scenes
OF other German operations in Russia.
Suren is nj his best on an occasion
like this courtly. but brief and 10 the
point. Early in the meal he rises and
says:
"Gentlemen! Comrades! have the
honor to drink to your health. greet
you in the name of your sovereigns
end your states My officers join me in
this welcome" Turning to his officers.
who sprang to their feet and lifted
their glasses. he gives the German
toast Of "Hoch! Zweimal hoch! Drei-
nal hoch!"
Little, fluent. suave Lieutenant Ger
tine, from Argentina. though one OF
the youngest in years of the Berlin
group of attaches. is the oldest in
roint Of presentation 10 the Emperor,
so it falls to him TO respond TO the
toast. He is graceful and brief.
War News Read at Dinner.
On ordinary evenings the event at
dinner Is the reading Of tho days bull
letins. telegraphed from great head
quarters in France. Suren leans back
in his chair, taps on his coffee cup
with a spoon and says: Gentlemen,
we will listen to the latest news"
The doors leading into the kitchen
regions are closed, and the six soldier
servant stand in line behind the gen
erals chair. Young Hauptmann Lau-
pold. who sits at the end Of the room.
unfolds the dispatches. and in twenty
seconds has these foreign officers in
this remote Russian town in touch
with the whole world dispatches from
the west fronts in Belgium and North
ern France, dispatches telling how af-
fairs are progressing with the Aus
trians in Bukowina. dispatches of more
or less diplomatic import or Of rumor
from Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Milan
and Washir gton. One night there was
a dispatch from Washington about
some note OF the State Department to
the British government. and ! distinct
~ saw the placid Suren's right cyelid
drop IN a wink directed At his chief OF
staff
After the reading on my first even
ing with the staff he said: Did you
understand that, Mr.. Bennett
suppose that in my fort TO follow
the sense | looked extremely owlish,
and guess he was qulzzing me.
almost all of it, general" ] said,
"for the officer read so clearly"
That tickled him and he cried: aha,
my dear Laupold, you have a compli-
ment on your detion!"
Good Voice Invites Work.
Later they told me about young
Laupold. 1t seems that he pays pretty
dear Just n W for his fine voice and
clean-cut utterance. for sometimes
when things arc hot and movements
swift they keep him all night long at
the telephone which connects the gen
cral with important points on the in
trenched lines lying to the east and
south of Mlawa.
After the reading OF the dispatches
which concern the movements in the
western theatre of war the wonderful
Gerr an maps of France are spread
over the tables, the magnifying glasses
are brought to bear on them, and the
men who arc lighting Germany's bat
ties on the east follow the battles their
comrades are fighting two frontiers
away.
Many Of the maps OF their own coun-
try. made under the direction Of Rus
sian military authorities. are used with
great caution by the Germans. the
Russian map Of this Mlawa region. for
example. has been partly corrected on
the basis Of fresh data and reissued
by the German War Office.
. The work of revising this particular
section was not finished, however, when
it was necessary, owing to the outbreak
Of the war, to hurry to press with the
map. Hence parts of it are safe and a
part is not. The difference tells the
whole SlavicTeuton story of efficiency
and ineficiency.