The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-24

ray green bosom Of hill which
curved N,fore them against the sky.
TIL. stained and grimy muzzles CAPPED
toward flc clouds beyond its crest; the
g.......- who lpvrileb and traversedsthem
Ial r. target within their view they
aim. md fired according to the orders
that .unc 20 them by telephone, and.
sou. ..r.z away. men upon whom they
nuF a..,r set eyes died under their
shells
e. ,., Was mile and more to go be-
..,H ..r guns before one came to the
nr. ..atrll. the station of the brain
H.., Governed the fighting and the eyes
'.' watched the slaughter \ semi
.....r trench was cut breast deep
r... shoulder Of the hill. with behind
. .ur shorod pit in which an or
..r. "ll.,d over the telephone. In
... .....H. the collar Of his rubber
... -ol about his ears. his nose a
.... ru1 with chill trod the captain of
....- u charge Of the battery.
n.r OF huge binoculars, mounted
s .r.Iod. was there to reinforce his
.s,-. down - his LETT lay the town OF
...s 'hy Russian pied a terre in Ger
..r.. 's' re- him and to his right
.... .,l an East Prussia. far pros
...' .r nd Urumplod intd.smalr abrupt
1 steep valleys. the woods stand
... . ... m ir black hlots, with strcaks
.. r.I lodging and reapl airing among
..,w and s'arfs. Of thin mist floating
'.. smoke across them. We stood at
'.. 'r'h,s, west Of the Russian adj
,.... ~ On" cutting edge Of the army.
.N..hnG beyond hut G.rmins," said
... uHH.u with gesture of his head
p. ., vide panorama beyond the
-rv.rs II the trench Like to have
. '.s o., some Of th"m?"
w.. great binoculars on the tripod
NaG' Cd mechanism almost as o,ahorat"
.- Is ggn-milled screws Of adjustment
.g1 '.rus. I arinEs and clamps, whole
clock case fun Of CadGets. Save when
a .Il. urt charge lifts one for a breath
JOSS mad minute out Of science into
s.var,rv. one knows ones enemy now
.7.ys only rs one knows a bacillus
through a microscope.
one fumbled among the adjustments
-. '1o compartment OF the red nosed
Ulcers obstructive directions: Their
.on that road Fourteen degrees right
Of -le front: don't you see?' The
glasses showed only green fog then
fins RS hat slipped on screw jerked
thorn t. an approximate focus. and one
N,- 'uuhir- 5t trees, suddenly Pr"at
ana Stinrt. and into the shadows of a
wood They came roun' found the
road they sought across all the moist
Intervening miles. crept along II. and
came 30 = 81. There. a. last, w"r" the
Germans.
had learned In the earlier weeks
p. envy the gray columns saw swing
ina, past at the lurChng Russian march
.rr stride. on their way M to the
Guarded and FORBIDDEN mystery ~ the
front For them the way was omen;
-.m- three million men w"r" FIRE" Of
. while 10 keep me cut Of 1t there
was urgan2cd whole department OF
..r-ur- and passport officials and
rr.ky military understrappers. Even
uuw ! was here by virtue of a literally
Construed word Of permission To go
nowhere else, without even what
T.'Hmann-H ollweg calls a scrap Of
paper" to stand between me and any
r.,y.Sh General who should give way
p. desire to shoot me.
r. was easier-and Cheaper-to see
'ho Venus de Milo than a uniformed
German: but here. at last ] beheld
chem. Il was a column of infantry on
fEr move Their road ran out from
'.f.nl a hill swung below a wood and
Gup,d again into valley; about hall
"a mile Of II was in sight, strangely
-'4g.'y clear in the field or the big
-'a--,s. Upon II the column moved
slowly a streak of gray-bue vague
ross NJ the very hue of cigarette smoke
T,v means Of the fine adjustment
..u.l focus so as to see the bristle
90 t'a sloped rifles and even the brown
pink lar Of the long lines of faces;
: could see mounted officers and the
.... of a furled flag: but ! could see
. man There was no man; there was
.-. he long, dim hued mass OF the
.un which had absorbed them, sub
."rs the infinite diversity or theii
atUy thousand souls 10 its own soul
..--ross.
n moved on the road as lava moves
.- hillside: it flowed rather thar
..erl. its bulk and its deliberate
..ly motion gave meaning TO all thai
AIRY iargon which speaks o.
sod" infantry. Of "shock" tactics
rushing" an enemy. 1t was ma
goo as machine,ike as gun or al
nluuo. as dependent as they or
'.. .tnd II the operator. The artiller!
.fO.r snufhcd cheerfully. See them
' See them? That's the mail on tn
n ...l Fist"
|.o Mailed Flst-the world Is debto
Pa. thc'Kaiser for the phrase, with all !
N...a'od of romantic yearnlng, tyran
." purpose and bombastic impulsiVe
,.. II thank thee, Jew, for teach
.- me that word" But the purpos
upi let us remember, was not T.
r'hcn the blow, but to save an
..rn the flesh it clothed; the finger
'ir Guided the sword gained neithe
.r'h nor cunning from the gaunt
hen as now, 1t was the make
..N.us hand within the glove OF iror
..' sensitive fallible, that struck an
'rrcd and was yet, for all the iro
.r lrmored and screened II, the inde
90 measure of the man. The han
80 vas masked to the likeness or a
claw could stll be betrayed by
Uv."r"
vs., have been looking on here at sue
..siure, not too comfortably, for
h" shape OF a long arm tina
Dhrd across Poland and snatche
Warsaw-and only missed II D
.r Ices. Here again, as in France an
10 sum- AS in western Russia VINE