Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-25
Mccormick Tells of the Opera
tionS Of the Russians
Against the AustrianS in the
Carpathians,
BATH TRAINS PROVIDED
TO PREVENT DISEASE
Deadly TyphuS the Greatest
Menace to Soldiers of Both
Armies in Eastern Theater
of HoStilitieS,
Nv ROBFRT II. McCORMICK.

Copyright: 1915; BY The Chicago Tribune.)
Great Russian Headquarters, May
19.--War on the flats ] had seen in
France and Belgium and a glimpse of
1t on the Rawka and Narew fronts in
Poland. SO much therefore, was my
pleasure increased in being allowed to
look at the war i'm the mountains
From Lvoff to the Carpathan noun
tains the Hungarians had fought in
retreat and many cubic feet Of earth
had been displaced to protect them
from their pursuers; but the Russians
had pursued with skill. as lines of lit
tie one-man mounds dug by the Rus
sian flankers testified.
When they reached the foothills the
Austrans must have broken into rout
or they must have been confident of a
renewed offensive.
The railroad up from Sambor runs
through many tunnels and over many
bridges, and the wagon road crossed
the river frequently. Two of the rail-
road bridges are more than 800 feet
high and half mile long. Just one
span of one of these has been de-
stroyed. Not single blast of dyna-
mite was exploded in a railroad tun-
rel failed to notice from the plains
To the mountain crests any point
where the high road had been dam
aged.
Villages In Ruins.
The villages along the way are
mostly ruins, but this is due to re-
treating and advancing artillery fire
and TO hand bombs, but not to delib-
crate destruction by either army My
voyage up the mountain road occurred
on Sunday, which was agreeable, as 1t
revealed the natives in their holiday
clothing, resembling for all the world
the chorus of some light opera.
Their relations with the soldiers
we're extremely cordial Young girls
chatted with the soldiers at the road
side and wherever troop trains stop
ned | saw crowds of children gather
to beg for sugar and cookies, which
were plenty, and for coppers, which
were scarce.
AS / found it in France, SO | found
II in Galicia. The citizens who had
been i'm the immediate theater of war
were ruined, but those near by were
getting rich selling supplies to the
soldiers.
AS we zig-zagged up the mountain
road we came upon novelty OF TINS
war. bath train. In permanent po-
SillOnS pdlH IOuliiH van Wv PN''N
houses or bath tubs can be provided.
In warm weather soldiers can bathe IN
rivers and in lakes; but for soldiers
advancing and fighting in winter time
baths are not easy to provide
Russian Soldier Cleanly.
Whether from home instruction or
military training, the Russian soldier
is a most cleanly individual but no
..1l in firing
trenches. Hence the bath train close
behind the advance positions, to
which the men are brought as often
an praeticable--five hundred men,
There are lice in the armies of this
war and lice are believed to be the
carriers of typhus. The Austrian army
Is infected with typhus and the Kus-
sian armies in the Carpathians are
constantly taking Austrian trenches
and Austrian prisoners, hence the dah-
ger of typhus epidemic is ever pres
ent.
To combat this the bath train Is es-
pecially devised The soldier IS given
a hot steam and then shower Dath
and furnished with clean clothes. dis
own clothes are washed ana dlsih-
fected and passed on to some other
soldier of equal size. When sickness
appears in any company this company
is given q special trip TO the patl
train.
We spent the night at a corps mead
quarters and the next day adVanceu "
a division on the firing me.
In modern warfare even the corps
commander is located well IN the reai ;
the general of the division belhs tne
officer of highest rank to appear upon
es,.f,o / W fortunate III al
irving lust as the general of TINS par
tieular division was starting out TO
look over a battlefield recently won
from the enemy and to plan for the
next steps of this unceasing advancing
Operations Visible.
Mountain warfare is the only war
fare these days where anything cdi,
be seen. Heights can be selected
which, Il not out of range. are at ieasS 1
out OF the zone of artillery IRE, anu
if an attack happens to be raging IN
the neighborhood a good pair OF 1leiu
glasses will let the spectator In on the
fight. This is just what the opposing
armies were not doing the day | was
at the front.
A mile away a Russian battery was
planted TO cover some strategic
ground. The Austrians knew 1t was
there and were firing upon IT with
shrapnel and other Russian batteries
were firing to protect it. The horl :
zon was fairly dotted with puffs oil
darkened smoke. but my neighpor
hood was in the sleepy quiet OF
spring MONDAY. ~.
The modern gun is protected Win
an armored shield and the modern
gunner is quick to build shrapne'-