Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 12, 1916, Page 10

10— WHAT RUSSIA BAS DONE 0TS ARMY Military Leaders Transform Disorganized Hordes Into an Efficient War Machine. ORDER SUPPLANTS CHAOS (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) At the Front with the Tenth Rus- sian Army, Sept. 23.—It is only at the active front, well removed from the inaction and pessimism which poinson the outlook from the large cities in Russia, that one is able to form a fair estimate of what Russia has accomplished during the past year in transforming a poorly equipped, inadequately munitioned and conse- quently dispirited army into a well- ordered machine, from which every trace of disorder and inefficiency has disappeared. It is at first almost im- yossigle to realize that the present organization, which compares favor- ably with that of any army in the field, has been built out of the wreck of last summer's disaster, and that the same commanders who were then occupied with the difficult task of leading their crippled forces into a sosition of u(et(, are now confi- ently and eagerly speaking of an advance into the territory lost to them in last summer’s campaign. A rnerll who took part in the retreat rom Warsaw and who commanded one of the divisions which heroically strove to delay the German advance, was asked by an Ausociated ‘Press correspondent to compare the con tions which grevailed in the army a year ago with those of today. Fit Fighters Now. “There is no co 180n,” answer- ed the general. st year we had no ammunition, and we were in no condition to withstand the powerful and well-organized offensive of the enemwy. Only a small part of my division survived the continuous shell fire of the enemy. But. todny we are equi It is the differzace between chaos and order.” On the broad lawn which flanked /the divisional headquarters, a reserve /regiment, which had been given a ialf holiday, were expending: their excess energ{ in games of leap-frog, blind-man's buff, three-legged races and biazarre Russian dancing, done to the music of an impromptu sold- iers’ chorus, who sang the strange, half barbaric chants of their race. Although this regiment had just been relieved from work i the trenches day before, the men were all in ne physical condition, and were well clothed and well fed, and showed fio trace of having experienced any ter hardships than that of living g“m open air and eating- three wholesome meals a day. At a short distance from headquarters one could see the white tents of the soldiers Feuming through the open es cleared in the pine forest, ich covered a knoll which ‘ha chosen as the best drained and nost healthful spot for the sleeping ters of the army. Faint streaks _gmoke curled ufiw:rd from | the oor kitchens where dinuer was ling prepared. On returning from m;€ n a bat e%. iuh ‘:2.] ier had been ' and linen, while e{gd‘lfl he had heen wearing were rough a disinfecting machine laundered. The Russian soldier w:l:""' casi more dnn‘d enjoy-‘ much more contented frame - of fi%fll&n balar? the war. army owes the great part of the co?lom which have been pro- vided for it to the Zemsky Soyuz, i union of fown’ councils, which the chief manufacturer and agent of i Through the gigantic strides nization and output which this has made since the beginning it has been able not only in the west. - e o TBATIIAY 'SCHOOL RUSSIA’S STATUS NOT AT ALL BAD Demand for Luxuries in Musco- vite Kingdom Oan Hardly Be Satisfied. WORKMEN ARE PAID WELL (Correapondence of The Assoclated Press.) Stockholm, Oct. 10.—There is much inevitable hardship in Russia, a pres- ent or threatening scarcity of many essential things and a very general and unpleasant lack of organization, but there Is also another side to the picture, Everybody who wants work can get it, and wages are so high that the tremendous increase in the cost of livin{ has been nearly offset by them. Mushroom fortunes are grow- ing up over night, and the demand for luxuries is so great that it can with difficulty be met. This is the report made to a corre- spondent of The Associated Press by one of the best known members of the American colony in Moscow, who now, after seven years' residence there, returning to America. His activil during that period kept him in touch with most ?am of the great empire, and he declared that condi- tions in Moscow are typical of what is to be found elsewhere, so far as prosperity is concerned, but rather worse in matters of housing and trans< portation. Homes at Premium. Moscow had roundly 2,000,000 in- habitants before the war. This num- ber, he be..cved, had been increased about 50 per cent, mlkm: the popula- tion 3,000,000. One of the immediate results has been such a scarcity of rentable houses that it is not at all unusual to find advertisers offering bonuses up to 500 rubles for anyone finding them a suitable dwelling.place. There,are certain restrictions against increasing rents to tenants already in occupancy, but these restrictions do| not apply to new renters, and natur- 1 materially in the manufac- re and purchase of guns and muni- ?'hn t to see that every part of it i plentifully supplied with $ and medical aj 8, ¢lean linen and all of the which néw surround the m’, After visiting numerous points the western front, the corres- nt found that the model con- aratus, bath ns which at first might have|ally suc! persons have to pay high seemed to belong only to a few ex- b in ‘find- mtbn‘l locnlih’u wih‘h had be:n prices when they do succectr in ‘find lni_l house. he number of cabs has been re- duced to a fraction of the ante-bellum number, and a considerable numbgr of street cars has also been withdrawn from service. Cab prices have in- creased to a point where many per- sons formerly addicted to the cab habit have given it up, but without finding an adequate substitute, the street cars being continually jammed to suffocation. * So there is nothing to do but walk, and Moscow is a city of i ,Fosing distances. T he: one really serious problem which the city faces this winter, ac- cording to the informant, is the ques- tion of fuel and light—wood, coal and petroleum, Wood which cost from 8 to 10 roubles before the War now costs as much as 50, and the supply is most inadequate, To be sure, there is wood enough in the empire, but transporta- tion facilities are lacking. Indeed, one of the fost unfavorable things in Rus- sia today is, declared the American, the extreme disorganization, or per- haps better, woeful lack of organiza- tion of transportation of all kinds, Coal and petroleum are both dear and scarce, and the outlook is not for any immediate betterment. Nobody Hungry. ‘There is a great scarcity of lard and other fats, and the meat supply is plainly becoming rapidly less. The informant declared that not only have the herds of cattle and swine been unduly reduced by excessive slaughter, but that great numbers perished last winter, either from cold or hunger, due to insufficient care. Of foodstuffs of other sorts, however, there is no lack, and there can be no question of anybody going hungry except the unfortunate Germans and Austrians yet in the empire, who find great difficulty in getting work, and whose numbers are so great and their colonies scattered over such vast ex- panses of territory that\it has been impossible to prevent all distress, even with the best efforts of the Am- erican diplomats and consular offices, who have undertaken the distribution of the German and Austrian relief | funds. { He declared that talk of a possible revolution in Russia was preposter- ous, “The Russian people,” he said, “never were so prosperous as they | now are, all the way from the laborer | up to the highest classes.” The great- | est furrier in the city told me that chosen for the purposes of exhibition, a’fliul universally to the whole front. At is to th tangible improve- :ebnu in conditions that the less tan- le. but equally important morale of the Russian troops is due. The ian_soldier, illiterate and ignor- ant as he generally is, is not unre- sponsive to the currents of confidence or depression which run through the organ of an army. Last summer he was quite aware of the unfortu- nate circumstances which made re- treat inevitable and impaired the effi- ciency of whatever unit to which he Nlon[ed.' But he has now had an opportnflllf{ of seeing conditions re- ver! ¢ knows that he is backed an organization in ‘which no detail has been overlooked, and he is eager to display his new-born effi- ciency. Russians Write Germans Suggesting Surrender “Correapondence of The Assoclated Press.) Damaschewitschi, Russia, Sept. 28. —The entrance of Roumanta into the :vnlr was the signal for the Russians long the line to send over placards upon the Germans and the to surrender and give up the hopeless. The placar s in each case were carried over to points mear the German trenches by prowling sentries during the night, and were for the most part written in mis-spelled and un, imatical German. t placard discovered by the was at a point almost due, amaschewitschi, and read: . NOTICE, Today, the 28th of August, Rou- “mania declared war on Austria, - : y, Turkey and Bulgari We are not shooting in order that: Rfi may be able to surrender.— e po-h Russian Commander. German Actor's Chest _ Loaded With Iron Crosses of The tated Prem. ct. 2.—Carl "'ti;a. of t):e t_‘ now at the front, has ‘his fifteenth decoration on g:m‘;. and is niil conué one e most decorate Germany. Only two others, i Y > ive more than' fif- ty are not war s for histrionic ma; OMAHA S DAY B OVEMBER 1 191 SCHOOL ON WHEELS FOR RAJLWAY WORKERS CHILDREN—A school on wheels is operated on the rails of the Southern Pacific company where construction work is under way As the construction gang moves from place to place, so does the school car with the workmen'’s children, who never miss aday’s attendance. O /7. FILM SERVICE, | stil he had never done such a business as in the last few months, new au- tomobiles appear daily in the streets, and the laborer is eating more and c\fiaring better clottlcs than he ever 1d. Soldiers Are Happy. “There is a great longing for peace among the civil population, but the soldiers were never so well fed, well clothed and happy in their lives. They arc now sure that they are winning and nothing can stop them, and they are well armed, in striking contrast to the first months of the war, when many had no arms at all.” “The prohibtion of vodka,” said the American, “by no means banished drinking or drunkenness. The Rus- sians—in Moscow, at least, and in the great district in which the city lies— are drinking wood alcohol, and the result is many deaths, lamings, cases of blindness, etc.” “It was a great mistake,” lie con- tinued, “to abolish vodka at one blow without giving the vodka-drinking classes something to.take its place. Light wines and beers would . have i{evcntcd the present conditions. The | oscow ‘beer saloon was in peace times one of the most orderly resorts in_the world. One rarely or never saw a drunken man there, and there were no quarrels or disturbances of any kind. It was a pity to try to change all this at once.” $30 for Shoes. The narrator named. some surpris- ing prices current in Moscow, such as 45 to 60 roubles ($22.50 to $30) for a pair of shoes, the latter being de- manded for American-made goods. The suit he was wearing—an ordinary business suit—cost 150 roubles. Food rices, however, are in many instances ower than those prevailing in Berlin and far below prices asked throughout Scandinavia. Various efforts have been’ made to establish maximum prices, but it has been found impossi- ole to enforce them, most unpleasant for the American in Moscow were, he said, the difficulties of getting about the city, owing to the inadequate street car and cab service (and the dearness of the latter) and the “uppishness” and general inde- pendence of the servants, . “It is getting all but impossible to find good, Poluc servants any longer,” he said. “They are all making so much money in factories that they clthgr will not go into service at ail or, if they do, ask such high wages and comport themselves in such a manner that it is intolerable, I saw a girl last week in a munition factory who, the foreman told me, was mak- ing 85 roubles a month, Before the war she ‘did very well indeed if she made 15" Munnition Workei‘;gtrike; Foreman Not Introduced (Correapondence of The Assoclated Pross.) an_don, Oct. 2.—Several hundred munition workers in a London shop went on strike recently because a new foreman was not formally introduced to them. They were out for nearly | two days and twenty-five of them were ‘summoned before the militaty tribunal for leaving work. One of the defendants, a man named Burgess, told the court that in thirty years' experience he had never heard of a foreman being appointed without his being introduced with the remark: “Mr. Blank, this will be your foreman in future.” The manager of the works said it | would be impossible to introduce a new foreman to more than 4,000 men, | Burgess said they did not expect the manager to introduce the foreman | to everyone in the factory, and espe- cially not to the young women. The court agreed that it would have been much better if the men had been properly informed of the new appoint- ment, and, to the accompaniment of loud cheers, dismissed the proceed- ings. - Thomas Mott Osborne’s Ideas in Philippines (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Manila, Sept. 29.—An experiment gnmmuquy has been gradually atta ing a brilliant success in the Philip- pines. It is the Iwahig colony, to which long-term prisoners are sent from Bilibid, the central insular prison, as a reward for good conduct. At Twahig, under proper supervision and guard, the prisoners manage their own community and except %m the necessity of not straying from their homes, they are free men, Their fam- ilies are allowed to join them and life is made far pleasanter than it was in ?nson‘ Many of them ‘“graduate” rom Iwahig into positions of jrowm- inence and distinction in the back vard communities whick they call home, The ‘two things which made lifed was a pi besi was was burt into ing top oa N thre ety two. atta ish feet rice best hila A of t fraty the A him, with B England's Airmen (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Ismailia, Egypt, Sept. 30.—British aviators claim a record feat performed during the recent raid on the Turkish aerodrome at El Arish. During the raid one of the pilots of EI Arish, his machine having been damaged by shrapnel. to repair his engine, he was discovered by another British machine, carrying problem then was whether the rescu- the three men away. All three climbed in, the rescued man crowding in on were ground was bad and heavy. found a stretch of hard ground to which the machine was taken and finally it got into the air with its big -passenger machine has ever be- fore flown ninety miles. with three pcople aboard and that the rescue is |one ginning of the war. The El Arish raid also resulted in another unusual feat. from a height of 200 feet and one Brit- | standing on the ground surrounded by seven or eight mechanics, and dropped a bomb which to pieces. Locusts Threaten Rice (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Manila, Sept. 30.—The promising s rice is the principal staple food bureau of agriculture is watching the situation 3 residents of Bulacan towns to fight thirty-seven neighboring hamlets have been attacked by the insect army. ‘ vagrancy an disturbance of the peace judge seemed Inclined to be lenient with | “What was the prisoner doing when you | & arrested him?" “He was having a very heated argument | worse sober Claim R@ord Feat forced to land several miles west While ! trying lot and an observer, which landed de him to render assistance. It found that the damaged machine past repair and the aviators ned it to prevent it from falling the hands of the Turks. The acroplane would be able to carry of the observer. Several attempts | o1 to get away, but the the load too Finally one of the aviators made inety miles across the desert the e men flew until they reached saf- at Kantara. It is claimed that no of the most unusual since the be- { The Turks were cked by British machine gun fire aviator descended to .within. 100 of a Trukish aeroplane which was ew machine and men bar (Correspondence of celebration [ in the North Sea g : | ception of the “forbidden zone.” |do with the posed of to an at war with British authorities bind themselves to | pay the substantial subsidy of 30 shil- lings per barrel of 115 kilograms thus sold, to compensate for the higher prices that might have been obtained from Germany, reserving the right to do this in treasury notes of a year's term. Further, the owners whose ships were taken in are compensated for any damage incurred to 1.ets and boats | during such operation, while permis- sion is again given to draw from Eng- land all the nets and other fishing gear required. rels, of DUTCH GELEBRATF - PACT WITH BRITAIN [New Fishing Agreement Gives Freedom of North Sea to Holland’s Smacks. |ONE “FORBIDDEN ZONE" Associated Press.) Scheveningen, Netherlands, Sept. 24. —Flags are flying from fishermen’s | homes all along the Dutch coast in | the agreement with Great Britain on the herring que:tion. When England's blockading war- ships some months ago began to take the squat Dutch smacks and luggers | | into British ports, on the ground that | | 90 per cent of their catches was pre- | L sumably destined for Germany, pop-| (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) ular resentment in Holland rose to| a high pitch. Fishing in the North Sea | 54, for a time practically came to.a stand- | | The relief felt at the solution of the | difficulty is great. The hundred or so | detained craft have already been re-| | leased by the British authorities, and | the entire Dutch fishing fleet of over 1a thousand vessels is to be cnli_r('ly | free to again carry on its operations always with the ex- Germans Get Some. | Britain’s conditions, stipulated with the Dutch fishing interests—the Neth- | erlands government had nothing to negotiations—are | from September 1 until the end of the | war the catches shall be placed on the | open market as heretofore, but that |not more than 20 per cent thereof | shall be sold to Germany. Home con- | sumption will take another cent while England reserves the op-| | tion to purchase a further 20 per cent | at prices ruling for Dutch buyers. The remaining 40 per cent may be dis- and all countries not | reat Britain, and the Look to America. the One of the indirect results of this settlement is that the Dutch hope to recapture the American market for Dutch salted herring—which had been lost to them owing to the fancy prices which German bidding had created. Before the war the United States was, next to Germany, the best customer, taking 14,517 tons of herring in 1913, In 1915, American herring imports from Holland had dropped to 1,593 and during months of 1916 only eight tons of |~ Dutch herring found their way across the Atlantic. German buying competition will | now be excluded so far as 80 per cent of the catches is concerned, and it is d. hoped that the British subsidy, which is something like the entire value of the product in normal .times, will cnable dealers to find a big overseas market at moderate prices, despite the high freight rates. It should, however, be added that outward freights have not risen in anything like the same proportion as - those to Europe, In |s fact, almost half of the ships sailing |= from Dutch ports ‘to transatlantic | destinations are if ballast. Leading fishery interests in | country estimate that from now on until the end of the herring fishing | = season, some 20,000 tons_ of salted |= herring will be shipped to America under this arrangement. This is fig- ured on a basis of 30 to 35 per cent of an estimated total catch of 500,000 = first As regards the fresh sea fish branch | that | 20 per seven this 1 of the fisheries, | has been concluded, by which 30 per | cent of the catches is to be reserved | for home consumption, and of the re- | maining 70 per cent half will go to | Britain and half to Germany. The British dealers will buy in the open market in competition with the Ger- man, but certain maximum prices have been fixed in the case of this fresh ‘file any margin above which will be i made good to them by the fishing {craft owners. f | Judging from the fact that 145,000 tons of salted herring and fresh sea ‘fish was exported to Germany last { year, by the foregoing ingenious com- | promise Britain will manage to inter- cept over 100,000 tons of fish food a year that previously went to help pro- visioning the besieged central powers. Grenade Throwing Is Sport for French Paris, Oct. 15.=Throwing the gren- is becoming a popular form of sport in France. A special chevron has recently been designated to be Iworn on the arm of the best grenade | thrower in each company. 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