The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-08-02


ns fast ns transports can be obtained
to carry them across. Two more steps
In the making of this great army were
taken last week. The men drafted for
the national army began to receive
their calls before the exemption
boards, the city OF Washington lead.
ing the way, and the National Guard
lumbin was mobilizcd to be taken into
the federal service. After few weeks
of intensive training I'm camps. the
best of the guardsmcn will be sent
TO France to prepare for the spring Of.
fcnsive.
The shortage of railway transpor,a.
ton at home also Is troubling the nd.
ministration, though II doubtless wfA
he remedled with the willing assist
ancc of the American railway execu-
tiycs. The demand for cars already Is
tremendous, for the moving OF materi-
nls and supplies for the army training
cnmps and for n dozen other purposes,
and It will be increased Immediately
ms the men of the National Guard and
of the national army begin moving to
their allotted places.
Russia's Collapse In Gaileia.
The collapse of Russia's offensive
In Galicin, due to insubordination In
stiCatcd by German agents, developed
into general retreat, and the retreat
into virtual rout Abandoning vast
military stores and burning villages,
the mutnous Savs flew everywhere
before the ea"y advance of the Teu-
tons, except on the Roumanian front,
where for the time at least, they stood
firm. Farther north, indeed all the
way To the Baltic, the Russians gave
ground.
Premier Kcrensky, armed with dlcta-
torial powers, declared he would apply
n policy of blood and iron to stop the
mutiny and treason, and General Korn-
Hon ordered his loyal troops to shoot
down any who deserted or refused to
obey orders, but this was ineffectual to
retrieve the disaster. Stnnislnu, Hnlicz
and other important cities were evac-
uated. and from the wooded Carpathi-
ans to the region of Tarnopoi the
country was full of long columns of
fleeing Russians on which the Tcu-
ton field guns played with merciless
slaughter.
one story from Petrograd told how
loyal troops In Kornilof's army blew
| to pieces an entire mutinous division
with Its own guns.
On the demand of the military com
manders ut the front, the provisional
government has again put in force cap
| ilal punishment for treason, which was
| abolished ut the time OF the revolu
tion.
However, this second great Russian
slump, serious though II be, Is not fa'
tnl. Kcrcnsky and his colleagues are
| determined to rid their country Of the
German agents and their traitorous
Russian aids. Lenine. the chief of the
latter, Is already under arrest, and II
Is believed he will be either executed
ms nm agent Of the German general
staff or mt least isolated as insane
Russians and their friends still believe
their new republic will emerge trl
umphant from the chaotic conditions
that now hold II almost helpless.
The Guard Of Death" the battalion
Of Russian women raised by Vera
Butchkareff, was In action on Tuesday
for the first time, at KrevO. The WON
en- fought well, gaining the respect OF
the male soldiers.
No Military Success for Germany.
Germany has scored no real mill
tary success Of moment for Ions
time. The Galiclan affair Is not a sue
cess Of arms, and though the kaiser
decorated some OF his commanders
there, they gained no glory by the pur
suit of mutinous and disorganizet
troops. Rather should Wilhelm have
bestowed his decorations upon tn,
spies who stirred up the insubordina
ton.