Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-29
Gated Dome of Greek Church
Painted Green and Ever
green Branches Hung Over
It TO Fool Enemy
RUSSIA is BROKEN IN
TWO. SAYS BENNETT
Strategic Importance of Cap
ture of Fortress Is Explain
edi Immense Advantage to
German Armies,
tBy James ODonnell Bcnnett.)

tBy James ODOnnell Bcnnett.)
Copyright. 1915: BY The Chicago Tribune :
C1rnstochowa Russia Sept 26.-lu
the days befor the war the first OBJ
jcyt seen by the traveller iourneyus
up 1r down The Nistula To the city of
Wangorod was the golden dome of the
garrislu's Greek church. which rises
which rises from the great book of
buildings constituting the fortress of
lwngorod For miles upon miles
across the plain it was visible ana
when the late afternoon sun shons
across it ID blazed against the sky like
BAN Of fire.
The dome is still there
but unless he looked very sharply
the traveller who sought it now would
SEQ nothing i'm that direction save
what might strike him as q lofty tree
or perhaps group of three or four
trees of peculiarly luXurant foliage
If hc had some hint that a reception
had been practiced and if he sur
veyed The landscape from the river
through field glasses he probably
would suspect that the outlines of
this mass of trees was too regular to.
be natural and if ne We're an artil-
pect something.
And his suspicious would be iusti-
fled
Certainly German artilleryman were
good deal baffled when they came
into this region with the purpose of
pounding the fortress OF iyangorod TO
pieces.
Gilded Dome Gone.
They looked on their wonderful
maps md they learned from fhem that
at such aTg such' a point there should
he the gilded dome of a large church
and with that fact in mind they said
10 each other, Nov where is that
dome and by any possibility can that
mass Of trees i'm the neighborhood Of
where the dome should be, mean any
tninE2' To clear up their doubts
they sent some shots across the river
and into the mass Of trees.
The experiment was fruitful What
had seemed TO be mass of trees was
not Topped and spread apart as it
should have been had the mass been
veritable trees, The shots went clear
through. The doubts of the Germans
We're cleared up.
When they marched into the fort
ress they found the garrison church
still standing 1t was not much dam
aged Looking up at the dome, they
found that its gided dome had been
given coat Of green paint and that
then the whole extent of 1t had been
carefully covered with a thick wave
of evergreen branches. Through this
mass and through the dome two Of
The German shots had gone clean.
The ruse had serve a double pur-
pose 1t had not only given the Rus
slams a safe signal station at q critical
time. but Il had deprived the enemy
ot capital point for taking the range
ana left him at sea at time When
every instant was precious.
Taught by the japanese.
When the Germans saw the masked
dome they grinned appreciatively, for
thcy are capable Of taking a joke
when 1t Is a military joke and said
what they always say when the Rus
Slams do anything clever
We bet they learned that from
the Japanese"
At present Ivangorod having fallen
and the Germans being safely i'm it,,
me only beings for whom the dome
retains a practical value are the birds
They said much obliged" and went to
live among the faded evergreens.
As 10 the future of the church, the
German officer now in command Of
the fortress said with gravity
through which not a CLEAN Of irony
shone "As the Russians will not be
coming back the church is being refit-
ted for Catholic services.
All the Forts Blown Up.
All the forts of lWang0rod were
blown UP before the Russians eVacu-
ated the fortress and fire was thrown
into an the buildings The destruction
ls terrible to behold and the flight is
deplorable to think upon.
"a beautiful fortress" said my
friend "a beautiful fortress. IL seems
as if it could have been held indeii-
hitely Certainly the speedy eNacu-
alton was not ethical
His epitOme of what IWangorod
meant IN the general scheme Of Rus
sun affairs was worth listening TO
because he knit up the fate Of that
fortress with the fate of Novo Geor-
giewsk and est-LitoWsk-fortresses
THAT constitute the great Polish tri-
lateral
And what he said was this.
Russia is broken in two.
AROUND IWdnBOrod we nave uvHS
long stretches on foot and it is griillng
hard work We are routed out ~
dawn and we have got so we consider
1t not bad luck II we get one hot meal
every twenty-four hours. on one OF
these stretches O cold night followed
by q very warm day. and what with
"eariness and thirst and the abrupt
change of temperature, some Of US
got queer in our inside. II was then
mat the Spaniard collapsed, not be-
cause he lacks spirit, but from sheer
dog tiredness. Besides his own
tongue he speaks German, French
Italian and a little English, and ne
generally saves the Italian for his
more emotional moments. which are
numerous. when he is pleased with
me situation he cries Bravo and
When il astounds him he shouts, Per