The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-21
lage on the frontier of Mongolia. 1900

from the scene If hostilities. The first
telegram conveying the order TO mo-
Billie was received at 4 A.. NJ. of Fri
day. July 81; the date Is interesting.
There was to be war; but with whom?
Nobody knew. With Japan. was the
first Then: no.; Russia had
pushed too far into Mongolia. and
China had declared war. Next it
was England. Saturday. August 1.
was spent in asscmblage and prcpara-
was done, but a telegram came
through ordering out every man be-
tween is and AZ. Monday, the Sd.
was given up to examination OF
horses. ON Tuesday and Wednesday
the men were still coming in and hav-
ing their kits checked up. Not until
Thursday. August 6. the day of telc-
gram number three. ordering the vodkl
shops closed after the day of mobiliza-
tion. did II become known, and then
at the service Of conservation Of the
troops. that Germany was tho foe.
The correspondent followed the
troops. Everywhere tho harvest If
mon had been reapcd: only the old
Ilflls N'llltli WV '4lllllfl ItH'ltliltu III
tho villages. Boys of II and 10 were
in charge Of the Government horses:
women who could neither read nor
write had charge of the post stations.
Graybeards worked with girls in the
hay fields. outside every village hung
by day the rcd flag of war; every
night a great red lantern steamer
down the Irish 10 omsk. Feasting
and mcrriment aboard: steaming yes
sells. never empty, II Ash. eggs.
chickens. mutton. A. every village
wharf.-the boat did not stop. bu;
slowed and swung in-the women
flung aboard loaves OF bread. garden
truck. cooked fish: the deep. simple,
personal charity Of Russian peasants,
which in the old days prisoners
marching away to Siberian exile SO
often had occasion to bless. TN Mos
COW. says tho reporter, II was ;hc
same thing all over again: an open
landed populacc siloworing gifts upon
the returning wounded. and. with un-
calculating generosity and ready sym
pathy. even upon tho German prison.
ers Of war; At Omsk soldiers gal
Looping about or leading horses TO and
from the river. great companies Of re-
servists in rags. free dining places for
r~eservists' families. companies u:
soldiers in new uniforms M With
new rifles. squads of men drilling on
the sands. train after train packed
with soldiers. all the rcd Siberian
goods trucks cmptied Of the m%erchan-
disc Of peace. and full Of runs, sad
dies. oats. hay; laden with military
carts and wagons with soldiers and
horses"
Sec Moscow. in September. 1914. as
Mr.. Graham saw i. His impressions
arc vivid he compares England tn the
man " 81. Germany to one e 80. and
Russia to the youth az is. with all
his destiny before him. having com"
through the war with Japan. II the
subsequent revolutionary crisis, and
now facing Tho supreme trial of his
strength. SKIN and courage. No
strikes. n riots. no rcvoluti"narN
p~ropugauda ~ pessimism, but AN AL
%pervadlug checrfuluess and national
. unanimity." The Films alone have
any touch Of German sympathy. mono
but the Mohammcdan trihcsmcn Of
'Ic ''"''9'', 0"'" - ri.
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seemingly rather romantic induI-
.curcs. But the great struggle mat,
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sian woman say rf the WoundoC en"in!
before her: Poor ne Is II his fdul
that he Is fighting us?' TIC Germans
for their part, are very suspicious. ask,
mo of tho 10, rs If, no, yi,riolo' re,
,,,siur IA talc medicine and asklne
When are We to he %hangcd"" But a'