Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-19
HOW WARSAW IS FAR|NC
UNDER RULE OF GERMANS
Streets Full of Life, Gay Music in
All Restaurants and Cafes
Are Wide Open.
REFUGEES RETURN TO CITY
Thousands OF Cars Subjects Crowd
Roads Leading to Captured City,
Carrying With Them Scanticst
Kind of Household Belongings.
ny AUGUST SpANuTH.

WARSAW. September I'll have
stepped into many trenches left a few
hours before by Russian infantry.
Almost invariably the ground was COW
cred with bundles OF thrown-away rife
cartridges Thousands OF enemies could
have been killed with these bullets
il the Russian soldiers had put them
20 proper use.
| do not insinuatc that the Russian
soldiers are towards: on the contrary.
/ am inclined 10 think them brave. But
ii seems that tho Germans. especially
their artillery. have found means TO
terrify the Russians TO such an extent
that they sec their only salvation In
getting away rs quickly as they can,
and for that reason throw away even
the burden OF ammunition they carry
with them.
Russia is not everywhere short of
:r;illcry ammunition, as rcporte I
rely upon what l have seen with my
own eyes in preference TO repeating
what Others have said. had a SPLEEN
dii opportunity to witness the last days
Il siege and the final capture Of Nowo-
Georsijcwsk The forts and the citadel
c.cd away shell after shell without 4
thought OF economy. The Germans
having brought their biggest guns
nearer TO the fortress. resumed the
bomha rdmcnt with the stcadiness and
regularity which characterize all their
military actions. and while they soon
got the better of the enemy, the latter
never ceased TO answer their rain OF
shells until he was actually silcnced.
Half OF the next day | spent In the
r~I,x
mountains Of big shells which the Rus
slams had been unable to destroy by
frc-enouGh TO hold the biggest fort
ress for months. If firing shells is all
that is necessary TO hold fortress.
As far as l can judge. the Russians
50 far have not los; a fortress or
hattie on account of their lack OF am
munition believe that their guns
do not reach far enough; that their
artillery Is in every respect inferior
- the German, and that, above all. the
Russian officers in general are hope
lcssly inferior
UNDERSTANDABLE EFFECT
OF GERMAN RATTERIES
The indescriba BILE effect of the Skoda
nd krupp mortar batteries is contagi-
Gus and ruinious to whole army. Be
sides, the irresistible force behind n
concentrated German artillery attack
cannot he fully explained because it
consists Of so many elements
Among tho long lines of Russian pris-
oncrs I passed these last days on the
roads OF Poland have not seen a
SINGLE private or officer who seemed in
cOnso!a BILE Many showed relief Not
because they were glad to give up
fighting. but because they had cncoun-
'ercd more than human nervous sys-
toms can bear.
The Russians when leaving Poland,
north and cast of Warsaw. were af-
nictcd with an uncomfortable wrath Of
obstruction. No; only were railroad
cars and tracks and all military stores
destroyed bu, all the crops. and even
many dwellings. were devastated by
The rctrcating Russians. The idea was
10 leave neither rations nor cover for
the German invaders
Since the fall OF Warsaw thousands
and thousands OF Russian subjects,
Poles as well as Jews. crowded the
roads leading to Warsaw from the cast
and north and from Warsaw TO The
west with their fragile little one horse
wagons laden with little children and
the scantiest kind o: household belong
ings
They had.; been driven away from
their hearth ny. the Russian authori-
ties at the time the Germans broke
into the so-ca!led Blonie position. a
formidable line Of field fortiications
100 miles long. which for many months
had effectively kept tho Germans away
from Warsaw.