Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-27
AusTRIANs CRY FOR PEACE.
Americans on Albanian Front Learn ot
Terrible Conditions.

| Terrible Conditions.
Koritza, Albania, Oct. 5.-(By Staff
Correspondent Of the Associated Press)
THE American ambulance section
stationed here, made up of men from
Leland Stanford University, California,
has one distinction Of late First It
made a record advance ofsforty miles,
ikeeping up wttSssstfe recent forward
isweep 81! General GsrossettYs forces
from Poprodek to PadahoJa, on Lake
Ochrida-one Of the biggest military
advances Of the war and the farthest
advance any automobile section has
made in these parts.
The eliminating achievement Of the
Californians has been bringing in proof
positive confirming the French account
of recent desperate fight in which 900
Austro- -Bulgars were killed and $50
captured, which has been denied in a
German communique The proof COM
ing from an Independent American
source has been received with great
satisfaction at French headnuarters.
Find American Prisoner.
The Americans secured their evil
dence> of the French success by a
chance meeting of the convoy OF Aus
tro-Bulgar prisoners as they were
brought back to the prison camp. The
ambulances were moving along the
road, parallel with the long file of pri-
soners, when voice suddenly came
from the prisoners ranks.
| Hello Americans"
This was in good English and the
prisoner who spoke was soon sorted
out.
IT am from Chicago" he said. "And
! I'm mighty glad to see some Of n.y.
American fellow citizens.
/ But what are you doing there as an
| Austrian prisoner" asked Walter e.
Brun, of Oakland, CAL
TIL tell you,' said the Austrian pri-
soner frankly 4 was living at Chi
cago when the war broke out, but as a
! native-born Austrian I felt j ought to
/ return to my country. And so I did
and it was the greatest mistake I ever
made in my life. Such dogs life
as I've had. Such hardships; suc.:
! food!"
Says Austrians Want Peace.
/ 'Why, not half of the men know
what the war is about or what it's
i for" he said "The one thing every
man in the Austrian ranks wants is
peace and he knows Germany is the
obstacle to Austria getting peace
I That makes a bitter feeling against
4 Germany among the men,"
i Meanwhile others among the col-
i legians were gathering very exact data
4 concerning the encounter in which the
i prisoners were taken. Their count
totaled 446.
I'VE get no news and know nothing
Of what is going on in Austria" he
said. He confirmed the story of hard
4 ship and misery in Austria as told BY
the men in the ranks.
j Austria's Plight.
Milk and eggs have become a men,
cry, ne said. There is iio money except
paper and iron. There are tickets foI
everything-bread tickets, meat tick
cts, potato tickets.
Along the route the American ambu-
lance men gathered up many evidences
OF the recent hasty retreat of the Aus
Itro -Bulgarians, which the German
! comunique had denied. A, D. Nc
j lLaish, OF San Francisco, ls'd in quite q
stock Of empty 75-mliiimeteT l..ss=
trian shell cases and powder bags,
Others took down the signs above the
officers quarters in the abandoned
camps and these now adorn the ambu-
lance headquarters here at Koritza.
It was noted at these abandoned
Austrian camps that much Of the sup
plies left behind in the hasty flight
came from neutral countries-Swedish
sariines, Swedish matches and SINH
lar material ~-,.A.A.A;.