Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-18

among the Caucasian heroes vas the
most trying and dangerous, but at the
same time the most instructive, Of our
dred wounded were found and cared
for. the greater part in the trenches
under heavy artillery fire. Several
sanitars were wounded.
When new corps came to the res
cue the Caucasians were ordered to
make rapid move Back to join fresh
troops and begin an advance together.
The move was executed SO suddenly
and rapidly that the military side had
no time to take out the wounded lying
in several villages near by. The last
section of the column volunteered to
creep into the village and rescue the
wounded who otherwise were threat
ened with being burned, fire having
broken out in several places. Through
the blackness of the night. lit only by
the bursting shells, we made our way
into the village and removed eighty
men from the danger zone. The stan
considered them lost and upon learn
ing of their rescue General Mishenko
called out the heroes Of that night,
thanked them for their work and made
them the subject of a fattering order
to his regiment. Immediately after
that the commander Of the column fell
ill and / was left in command.
Among the troops whose gallantry
stopped the Germans second time
from coming to Warsaw were those OF
the First Siberian Corps.
For the first time having seen the
magnetic Siberian officers" said Kali
paschnikoff, Il decided to offer the
services of the column to that brilliant
corps l went tor the commander OF
the crops. General Pleshkoff. who ac-
cepted my services; l. was fascinated
by him, and my impression OF MIN,
gained that day, as a man beloved ps
his soldiers. big hearted and fatheriy'
has never changed"
During the long tenure of the line of
the Bsura river before Warsaw. when
the Smelling at times was so intense
that it seemed to him that no human
being could live in the trenches. Kali
paschnikoff and his column took out
and cared for several thousands OF
wounded, victims not only of Smelling
but Of German gases.
Continuing his narration, Command
er Kalpashnikoff said:
About this time the Prassnltz
operation came to crisis. A DO"
was necessary to stop the development
of the German plan directed on Wilma.
The Siberian corps was summoned to
start on a few hours notice and pro-
coed by forced marches 1877 kilometers
to Prassnitz over fearful roads and IN
wretched weather Two days were
allowed to cover the distance. The
world knows Of that brilliant dash and
what was its result. The military
hospital. in this rapid march, had been
left behind. The Twenty-First Flying
column followed and was the first tc
enter after the city had been taken by
the First and Third Siberian regl-
ments. The sights we saw cannot be
adequately described. More than 27Ot
wounded Germans without having hac
any care whatever, were lying OF
era Wiling about the streets, hiding IL
Easements and outbuildings. evidently
hoping that the Germans would make
a counter-attack and reenter the city
The bitches were full of dead anc
wounded as were the open spaces
about the city and the outlying vii
lagos. Many of our own men were
scattered among the German wounded
We found the work almost beyond oul
capacity, far from a railroad and wltf
the troops always moving on. we
| formed concentration camps at vari-
Gus points and put students in charge
Of them. In these camps we collected
1850 wounded"
To accomplish the rescue kalpash-
nikoff and the student had to crawl
more than a mile along a ditch, put IN
plain view and in constant range OF
the German trenches, but, in the words
of kalpashnikoff, 1.-The German soldiers
shot rather badly"
After the Germans left Heinoff the
, population was destitute and facing
! starvation. The Flying Column In the
succeeding days fed there 22.69s per-
sons besides stamping out an epidemic
of typhois fever which for a time
threatened to assume large proper
tons.