Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-16
Veteran War Correspondent
Saws He Felt Like Cub Re-
porter Filling First Assign
ment When He Tackled Task,
GERMAN OCCUPATION
IMPOSING SPECTACLE
Takes Little Stock in MuSCO-
yiie Claim of Munitions
Shortage as Excuse for
| Failure 10 Check Invaders,
JlNIFS OpONNELL BENNETT.

A JAMES OlJONNf ELL lin MI l.
knyrieht. 1875 By The Chicago Tribune
tWarsaW. Russia. Sept b. - That
bvo-Georgieysk day was day of SUI
Initiatives. / tried To convey its big
smash 10 the Tribune in several thou
sand words of cable dispatches that
sent off while the impression was
stin hot in mv brain, so { don't think
there Is amy use beating the air all
over again about il.
was far from proud of those dis
patches. for they seemed to be so col
orless and thin by contrast with the
things We had seen and the emotions
We had felt But consider what a re-
porter was thrown up against single
handed
The wreckage of war lay all around
MS. ON one hand was the human
bomeK. muurnful pageantiy of refu-
gees. and on the other the spectacle of
whole corps of captured army
streaming along the highway and
through the woods. Directly to the
front OF us were the stately splendors
of Kaiserpardde, which rises to the
s8lemnity of a ritual and behind MS
the Sky was black with smoke rolling
np from the premier fortress of the
great Polish Quadrilateral Il was d
story that any city editor in Chicago
or New York would have put hum
bred men ON instantly he could have
laid hands on them.
] tell you there We're men looking
on the splendOr and the ruin Of the
rsetne 0im had 10 set their Jaws Aard
to keep from making an emotional
show of themselves, and some of them
who had been writing hurry up copy
about big things for five and twenty
Years Were So appreeiatVe of and SO
stunned by the sight that they We're
utterly disheartened.
Dissatisfied With Own Story,
don't think there was a man VINO
dashed his signature onto his dis
patch next morning and intrusted 1t to
the courier bound for Berlin who was
at all satisfied with what he had writ
ten nor do ] suppose his paper was
either when the copy began to coms
clicking into the telegraph room five
thousand miles away. Indeed ii was
the fact that we We're so far from oul
chiefs that enabled us TO put a good
face on the matter and pretend that
'' 'A"NN' NV A"iiAll Albh II NiA NAAN tA''HAf1AA
men. of a lifetime But in our hearts
Be rere as panicky as young report
efs at Then first disaster
Even the American who the day be-
lore had shifted at the war IN genera
detail and pronounced it the most
exciting thing ne had seen since the
Ilfst time he saw a man shingIe q
roof was humble new After we haC
passed the colossal array of prisoners
ana after the clashing of bands anc
lhe thunder rush Of black hussar ol
fumpets ami the wild neighing In re-
ply 20 the trumpets, and the slow
strong voice Of the emperor, and tht
presentation of crosses and the sing
ing and the Farewell, Comrades,
ana the answering roll Of "Adieu, ma.
lesly after all that this chap ! told
you about in yesterdays letter said
say Fellows, I'm just groggy with eX
elementG Then the fellows forgaVt
nm for his flipness at the edge Of the
scrub oak basin the dav before.
IN this mail dispatch I am going tC
set down some Of the days inciden
aus that ! could not touch when
was trying to hit its high spots by ca
pie The first incidental was a prett,
laH-slzed one. for its comprehendeC
: matter of 10000 prisoners in on,
hatch-with more to follow all day
long and far into the night. OF al
tne sights Of the day-the wheelinl
lines of gray, the fortress that wal
sinking into ashes before ones eyes
ahl the villages that were going VI
IN iiame--l don't know but what thi
wv 81 the prisoners was the most
HlpI esslFe, because it was the mos
",gc's'Fe. 1t was no taking Of CAPT
,al OF OF a f0rtification system from
nl1,en the defending troops had slip
peu away. II meant the gathering in
VI inc Hover OF a whole army, ant
nv eAplainer Of 'strategical retreats
ena 40 eoner Of similar euphemism
could gansay #.
Before ] came on this trip, which