AUSTRIAN GIRL TELLS OF
FLIGHT REFORE RUSSIANS
NEW YORK.—The experience nf a
retreating army pursued by a victor
ious army was shared by a New York
girl when the left wing of the Aus
trians was driven out of Lemberg by
the Cossacks last September.
Miss Bertha Zwllllch, who lives here
with her brother, was visiting relatives
at Boroslav, In northern Galicia, when
the Cossacks invaded the Lemberg re
gion. Boroslav was In the rear of the
Austrian left wing, which was sup
posed to he the strongest. But the ter
rific onslaught of the Cossacks smash
ed It and the Austrian army was driven
hack Into the Carpathians
Miss Zwllllch, with hundreds of re
fugees, went with the Austrians,
tramping for weeks with the army and
eating the same food as the soldiers.
“For days and days,” said Miss Zwil
lich, ' walked and ran with hundreds
of other refugees ns we fieu Toward
Budapest. We were right with the re
treating army itself, and we ate dally
with the soldiers. We all shared alike.
Then we reached T'szok Pans In the
Carpathians. There I saw a number of
horrors that T don't like to think of.
“T saw two men, a woman, and a
12-year-old girl shot down hy stray
bullets while T was tn the streets of
T'szok. The Russians eaught up with
us very close there, and down in the
town we could look up on the moun
tain tops near hy and seei the shells
bursting almost oyer us. I was an eye
witness of the fierce encounter of
T'szok Pass.
"After that we tramped on In the
same direction toward Budapest and
Vienna. We took turns walking and
riding in carts Clothing ind the few
things we could snatch up as we left
our homes we carried with us For
more than two weeks this terrible
strain kept up. At one town we stopped
for a rest, but there was an outbreak
of cholera and again we started on our
flight. At last we reached a railroad
and were transported In freight cars to
Rudapeat.
"I have twenty cousins, all In the
Austrian at my. The Oallclans did not
want war at all. but once In it they
said: ‘We will win: we must win.'
And that Is still their cry and their
spirit. In a letter I have Just received
from Budapest I am told that my uncle.
42 years old, has not been called to the
colors ond that conditions are very
good My relatives have received mail
front the garrison at Rr/.emysl by the
aeroplane post. They say the garrison
is holding out splendidly.”
“PROSITS” CONTINUE, DEER
NOT SCARCE IN GERMANY
NEW YORK.—Vehement denial i.s
made in the Kolnische Zeitung of a re
port published with equal gusto in the
i'aris Figaro that the German beer
supply was endangered by the war,
and that the "nation of beer drinkers’
was doomed speedily to a drough in
its favorite beverage.
The Figaro’s article quoted in the
Mannheim General Anzelger, said:
“Germans has been suffering under
the weight of a dreadful announcement,
which weighs more heavily upon its
morale than even the slowness of the
war; it is being threatened with a blow
in its beer supply.
“In fact, its beer i.s in danger; barley
bids fair to forsake the German farm
ers. For the annual output of its
brown or yellow beverage Germany
needs 3,000,000 million tons of barley.
liut it produces only half of what ll
needs. The 1,500,000 tons shortage it
usually drew from Russia. It is quite
dear that Russia will no longer furnish
these 1,500,000 tons of barle\ to Ger
many.
"In a few weeks the manufacture of
beer will be a very doubtful matter.
The home supplies will soon be ex
hausted, and, since they cannot renew,
the output will soon decline or cease
altogether.
"What a misfortune for Germany!
When it finds itself deprived of its
gigantic beer revels, that will be its
worst punishment.”
To this the Kolnische Zeitung re
plies:
“That is the French method It is
Hue that hurley is dearer than in nor
mal times: but to speak of a famine in
the breweries as a result of that fact
is utterly false. Our breweries are
working as before in their usual man
ner ami have no thought of curtailing 1
their business.
"The Figaro assert# that w« draw an
nualy 1,500,tiuu tons of barley for brew
ing purposes from ltussia. As a mat
ter of fact, in 1M11, when the figures
were unusuully high, the import from
lluNsia amounted to 25,000 tons, and in
ihe year ol 1913 the tutai amounted to
only -1,419 tons. The expert of the
Figaro seerns unable to grasp the dif
ference between malt-ballet ami feed
barley."
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FRENCH NURSE BURIED
WITH MILITARY HONURS
GENEVA,—Mile. Seller ,21 years j
old, who left her home in Paris at the)
beginning of the war to serve as a
volunteer nurse, was buried with mili
tary honors at Belfort, France.
Mile. Seiler followed the French army
through all the vicissitudes of the win
ter campaign in Alsace, and a short
time ago volunteered for service in a
military hospital near Belfort, to which
|soldiers suffering from typhoid fever
[are sent. She contracted the disease,
which caused her death.
Immediately after Mile. Seiler's death
an order was issued setting forth that
ja gold medal of honor had been granted 1
in view of her services.
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GERMANY PLANNING BIG
GRAIN PURCHASE
BERLIN.—The proceedings of the
budget committee of the Prussian diet
give some additional information ns to
the organization and the scope of tlie
“War Grain Company” which is the
main instrument of the government in
its scheme for the collection and dis
tribution of the food supply of the
country. The company is expected to
buy up about 4,000,000 tons of wheat
within a short period. This will neces
sitate dealing with at least 5,000,000
producers, according to estimates pre
sented before the budget committee,
and will require a small army of offi
cials. The company has arranged for
the employment of 500 central bureau
employes and 3,000 "commissioners.”
FUN IN THE |
TRENCHES
The following cheerful extracts from
the dairy of an officer at the front, says
the I,ondon Daily Mall, are characteris
tic of all the prevnding optimism of
our troops.
Thursday.
Avery pleasant and restful day—wet,
of course. Did a little foraging in the
battered farms along the road, running
parallel to and about 400 yards behind
the firing line. Borrowed some pota
toes and some leeks from what was
once a garden.
FRIDAY.
My birthday, by the way. I rather
fancy, now that I think of it, that this
is the fourth birthday I have spent
more or less on a battlefield. I walked
a bit along the road—only 100 yards
behind the firing line, you must re
member—and to my amazement came
across a common or garden postman
peacefully going from door to door
such doors, that is, ns the shells had
left. Quite a number of the inhabitants
had returned to the little scattered
hamlet on the roadside; the Germans
for some reason have not shelled this
bit to anv extent for a month or so,
and the inhabitants do not seem to
mind the odd bullet or two that occa
sionally buzz along.
On my way I met a couple of our
servants, who had, I gathered, been at
tacked by a flock of those savage stray
chickens. In self-defense they had ap
parently been forced to kill a couple
of them. I fear we will have to eat the
poor thinks for dinner. Kxtradionary
how savage these chickens are when
the farmhouses have been destroyed or
abandoned where they formerly dwelt
in peace and harmony with all man
kind. One often sees old men straight
from the desperate tussle returning
with tile corpses of these dangerous
lords, i had to nose around for wild
eggs, hut egg laying is a custom that
these lords appear to have abandoned
when t tiev went in for “kultur."
Pig has Patriotic Paco.
There is also, by the way, a pig here
I rather fancy from the way it follows
one about, obviously trying- to speak,
that its feeling of appreciation of the
entente is so warm as to make it medi
tate accompanying u» down to the
trenches, murmuring to itself (it looks
a learned pig) “Dttlce et decorum est
pro patria mor.i' Possibly it will come
it lias a patriotic sort of face. hut. as
is so often the case with a true pa
triot, has rather a miserable body.
We also acquire bv the antiquated
and horrible mercenary method of pur
chase some alleged bread and butter.
After sampling a portion of the former
we gave the rest to the patriot pig, wtio
1 was destcessed to find is absolutely
fixed in his determination to die for
his country by one method or another.
I wonder if a pig defunct from natural
causes such as acuto indigestion is so
succulent as a fdg self-immolated in
the hot flames of patriotic favor. Pos
sibly tlie chef at the Ritz will know—
anyway, we will know in a day or two.
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