Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-25
Fierce Blizzard Fails to Change
Regulations Of Won Hinden-
burg'S Army Fighting in
Poland,
CANN0N'S ROAR IS
CONTINUOUS AT B0LIM0W
Iron Discipline Prevails Over
All Difficulties and TeutOniC
Soldiers March CheerfuIIy
Through Storm,
ln, Jnmes O,ponneII nennctN

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Copyright; 1915: BY The Chicago Tribune )
Lowicz, Russia, Feb. 22.-The bliz-
ard that has been threatening for
hours has come Night has fallen,
II is almost as dark indoors as out,
for the supply of petroleum has run
so low that it is served out in cupfuls
and only tc high officers and to cooks.
Both must do their work. and the work
Of both is of the first importance.
The blizzard is sweeping across the
wide square that the soldiers have fa-
cetously renamed the "HindenburS
platz." II is binding men and horses.
At s O'Clock, in getting to the Off
GERS casino from my quarters, where
| live with a Russian jew, who prays
every morning with his face turned
toward Jerusalem, ! have TO step into
a doorway to catch breath. one can
not keep his eyes open, so piercing is
the slcct. The sound Of the heavy
guns has absolutely ceased, for the
first time in five nights. Not even the
cannonecrs can fight this kind of
weather.
scurry along in the shelter Of the
dark houses and come full tilt into a
ahead, hands thrust deep in pockets
and head bent to the blast. We cN-
change donnerwetters, and he lunges
into his drift and | into mine.
Casino Formerly inn.
Soldiers wet to the skin and raven
GUS are stamping into the officers ca
slno The place is soggy and its
menu Is limited Before it was ele-
yatcd to military dignity, through
being designated as an offlcers dining
room, II was a sufficiently representa-
tive Polish Russian inn--walls two
feet and half thick, ceilings low,
floors undulating, highly colored pic
turcs Of Napoleon and murderous
scenes from Slavic history on the
greasy walls, and an extremely sicken-
Ing concentration of the necessaries Of
human existence.
You approach the den through a
lcng passageway paved with cobble-
stones and depre ssed in the middle to
make gutter for waste water from
the kitchen. This devils trap is good
for at least two tumbes if you are
without pocket lamp.
More Wick Than Oil.
Narrow passageways, where you en-
counter good-natured litlle Pollsh
Mattresses, who take their nightly re-
pose on cOuches made up in the dining
rooms, lead to those dank apartments
In the one where the correspond
ents foregather an oil lamp that Is
burning more wick than petroleum
gives off q smell out Of all proportion
to the light it sheds
An officer with arms outstretchcd
has flattened himself against the
nigh, porcelain stove, his head out
lined by halo of steam from his wet
clothes If you were in a mood for
anything facetious, he might suggest
to you a modern version of St Law
renee and his gridiron.
No More Rum.
If we are lucky, we shall get
plate OF watery soup, black bread
cold sausage and hot tea, served IN
thin glasses. If we are not so lucky
We shall have to omit the soup. Two
Gays ago there was rum, which, mix
ed with hot water and sugar, the
Germans call Grok. but the rum mas
either run out entirely or been com
nandeered for the wounded.
The food is an intolerable time IN
coming one by one officers enter
and drop heavily into their places at
the long unClean table. They are 100
weary and homesick tonight to Keep
up conversation. Last night we were
all CHEEKY enough, but this tearIul
weather and that Internal lamp
which seems about to emit It's last
splutter, would take the heart out
OF even a BaVarian.
Stout, rubicund Zimmerman, wear
ing on his right sleeve the broad Sei-
low band embroidered with the DiacN
; 'Berichterstatter or correspoh-
denD, and who on past days has been
the most genial of our detachment
mere in Lowicz, is utterly done up
tonight.
Colleague" he says, turning to
me with Watery eyes, 81 am very SIGN
mani beg you to excuse me
He goes stumbling away TO ms
quarters to fight the influenza
Response Not Required.
The officers sit in silence OCCASION
ally a man sighs abstractedly anu
says ia! ia" slowly and apropos oi
nothing, for nothing has been salo
ior ten minutes. You are not requlIeu
70 respond to nor expected TO hotlSo
this ia! ia" 1t means among oth-
er things that the speaker is Wohaer-
ing when the food will come now
long the war will last, what japan
will do; how his wife and chiidfeh
are, and how the operations on the
west front are going. al
If he is very blue and very meul,
lative he follows ia Ja.' with 'Nein'
Nein!" at the expiration of flVe mn
utes. That signifies that he Is 20
ing over the thoughts again, ana ine
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