Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-22

ed in the army a year ago with those
 of today.
 There is no comparison" answered the general. Last year we had no ammunition. and we were in no con dition to withstand the powerful and well organized offensive of the enemy. Only a small part of my division sur vived the continuous shell fire Of the enemy. But today We are their equals. It is the difference between chaos and order"
 On the broad lawn which flanked the divisional headquarters, a reserve regiment, which had been given a half holiday, were eXpending their excess energy in games of leap-frog, blind mans buff. three legged races and biazarre Russian dancing. done to the music of an impromptu soldiers chorus, who sang the strange, half barbaric chants of their race. Although the regiment had just been relieved from work in the trenches the day before. the men were all in fine physical con dition, and were well clothed and well fed, and showed no trace of having experienced any greater hardahip than that of living in the open air and eat ing three wholesome meals a day. At a short distance from headquarters one could see the white tents of the soldiers gleaming through the open spaces cleared in the pine forest which covered knoll which had been chosen as the best drained and most healthful spot for the sleeping quar- ters of the army. Faint streaks of smoke curled upward from the outdoor kitchens where dinner was being pre- pared. On returning fom the trenches, each soldier had been given a bath and fresh linen, while the clothes he had been wearing were put through a disinfecting machine and laundered. The Russian soldier lives better. eats more, and enjoys a much more con- tented frame of mind than before the war
 The army owes the great part of the comforts which have been provided for it, to the Zemsky Soyus. or union of town councils, which has been the chief manufacturer and distributing agent of all military supplies. Through the gigantic strides in organization and output which this union has made since the beginning of the war. it has been able not only to assist materially in the manufacture and pur- chase of guns and munitions, but to see that every part of the army is plentifully supplied with hospitals and medical apparatus. both houses, clean linen and all of the comforts of life which now surround the army. After visiting numerous points along the western front, the correspondent found that the model conditions which at first might have seemed to belong only to few exceptional localities which had been chosen for purposes of exhibition, applied universally to the whole area of the front.
 It is to these tangible improvements in conditions that the less tangible ] but equally important moral of the i Russian troops is due. The Russian soldier. illiterate and ignorant as he : generally is, is not unresponsive to i the currents of confidence or depres- | sion which run through the organism | of an army. Last summer he was i quite aware of the unfortunate cir | cumstances which made retreat in- | evitahle and impaired the inefficiency of whatever unit to which he belonged. | But he has now had an opportunity ' of seeing the conditions reversed. He knows that ne is backed up by an organization in which no detail has been overlooked and he is eager to display his newborn efficiency. {