Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-23

ing In several villages near by. The
last section of the column volunteer
ed to creep into the village and res
cue the wounded who otherwise were
threatened with being burned. fire
having broken out in several places.
through the blackness of the night.
ut only by the bursting shells, we
made our way into the village and
removed eighty men from the danger
zone The staff considered them lost
and upon learning of their rescue
General Mishenko called out the
heroes of that night thanked them
for their work and made them the
subject of a flattering order to his
regiment. Immediately after that
the commander Of the column fell i'll
and | was left in command.
Among the troops whose gallan-
try stopped the Germans a 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, II decided to offer the
services of the column to that bril-
liant corps. | went to the comman-
der of the corps General Pleshkoff,
who accepted my services. was
fascinated by him. and my impression
of him, gained that day, as a man
beloved by his soldiers, big hearted
and fatherly has never changed"
During the long tenure of the line
of the Bsura river before Warsaw,
when the Smelling at times was so in
tense that it seemed to him that no
human being could live in the trench
es, Kalpaschnikoff and his column
took out and cared for several thous-
ands of wounded, victims not only OF
Smelling but of German gases.
Continuing his narration, Com
nader Kalpashnikff said:
Crisis In Fighting.
About this time the Prassnitz OPP
Grafton came to a crisis. A blow was
necessary to stop the development of
the German plan directed on wilma.
The Siberian corps was summoned to
start on few hours notice and pro-
eters to prassnitz over fearful roads
and in wretched weather. Two days
was allowed to cover the distance The
world knows of that brilliant dash
and what was its result. The mill
tary hospital, in this rapid march, had
been left behind. The Twenty-first
flying column followed and was the
first to enter after the city had been
taken by the First and Third Siberian
regiments. The sights we saw can
not be adequately described. More
than 900 wounded Germans without
having had any care whatever, were
lying or crawling about the streets,
hiding in easements and outbuildings,
evidently hoping that the Germans
would make a counter-attack and re-
enter the city and the outlying VIII
lagos. Many of our own men were
scattered among the German wound
ed. We found the work almost be-
You'd our capacity far from rail-
road and with the troops always
moving on. We formed concentra~
ton camps at various 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 mile along ditch, but
in plain view and in constant range
of the German trenches, but. in the
words of Kalpashnikoff "the German
soldier 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 cpl
demic of typhoid fever which for a
portions.