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J Horror Circle for Miles.?Beautiful
Villages devastated.
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The deluges of fire, shot, shell and
deadly gases which poured forth for
days during sieges and struggles for
gc.
possession of the fortress and city of
Przemysl from both the defending
and attacking forces wrought terrible
havoc and devastation for miles
around and calloused the residents
; who lived inside of the city throughout
the ordeals to further dangers of
the world war, writes Anthony Czarnecki,
special commissioner of the
Chicago Daily News, who investigates^
* ed distress in Poland.
The horrow of the devastation ex^
^ tends for miles in every direction
from the ominous circle of fortifica^
tions which incloses the city. In six^
ty-three places within a short distance
around the now world famous
fort, where prior to the drives and
battles and shifting of fighting forces
there were beautiful villages, there
are now ruins and ashes. The charred
remains of dwellings, farm buildings,
churches and' palaces loom up
ominously as if from some monster
bonfire. In addition to these totally
* destroyed communities seventy-five
others are damaged to a lesser degree.
People Living Underground.
^ Around each one of the sixty-three
charred and wrecked village ruins in
'la vioini+v nf Prezemsvl trenches.
excavations made by artillery fire and
f~\ large burial pits are in evidence. In
\ many of these underground works
the destitute peasant folks who have
no roofs at all left over their heads
seek shelter. During the cold winter
months many died of exposure
and cold in these underground dwellmL>
ings, while the rain storms of spring
m and summer have kept the inhabi
tants drenched and otherwise sufHk
fering.
Gen. Stowasser, of the AustroI
1 Hungarian forces in charge of the
Przemsyl fortifications during my
visit there, together with the muni9
1 cipal authorities of Przemysl, the
^^^^yillage and town authorities 'of the
W devastated places around it and the
leaders of Catholic and Jewish
churches were bending their efforts
to provide proper homes for these
people. |The large number of Russian
and other ally prisoners, as fast
as the work of replacing old and
building new fortifications was completed,
were employed in building
barracks for the homeless. Thousands
of people have been housed during
the last winter in such establishments.
Epidemics Claim Thousands.
Freed from the besieging and fighting
force, Przemysl and vicinity ever
since the terrific days, have been besieged.
by disease epidemics which
*
claim victims among civilians, soldiers
and war prisoners by the thousands.
It is because of these epidemK
ics that Gen. Stowasser and the mur
nicipal authorities bar all visitors
from their offices who do not first
show to the proper guards medical
% . certificates of being free from the
raging diseases and of having been
^ vaccinated and preperly inoculated.
fin Przemysl itself cholera, smallpox
and spotted typhus have made
periodic circles in spite of the most
" determined and energetic efforts.
Churches of City Spared.
Many beautiful, old and historical
church edifices outside of Przemysl
W have fallen a sacrifice to the fierce
struggles which raged around them.
In Przemysl itself the various imposing
edifices, which are monuments of
historical and religious value to the
people of Poland, have escaped unscathed
by the artillery fire and tow
er as majestically as tney aia in
times of peace. The Roman Catholic
t cathedral, which contains famous
masterpieces of paintings, sculpture
and chapels, and the Ruthenian rite
cathedral, which is the product of the
.a eighteenth century, as well as all the
other impressive churches and struc\
tures, although easy targets for the
aircraft and artillery fire, were re
spected and spared by both sides.
The Austrian commanders in
charge of the garrison which fought
to retain Przemysl, as well as the
) * Austrian forces which regained it
from the hands of the Russians, were
especially ^careful to save the city
j from destruction. The Russians,
^ both during the siege and when after
possession they left, scrupulously
avoided damaging the imposing
? church buildings and other edifices
which are landmarks in this citv.
Neighboring Churches Wrecked.
According to the official investigation
made by Roman Catholic Church
authorities of the diocese of Przemysl,
the churches completely destroyed
during the terrific struggles rag?r^or
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Russian and the Austro-Hungarian
~*^V forces were located in the following
f places: Ujkowice, Wyszatyce,
Grochowce, Nisko, Raclawice, Wiazownice,
Rudnik, Rozwadow, Kosienice,
Zarszynie, Litowiska, Sieniawa,
Gorlice, Mizyniec, Felsztyn, Radawie,
?Husakow, Pysznica, Radochence,
Tamanowice, Lunza, Staskowee,
Pnikucie, Radymnle, Blozwi, Balik
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HIS BOMBS KICKED BACK.
Demonstration of Attack on City ]
Proved Perilous.
Luckily for Farnum T. Fish, aviator,
and his companion, George E. ,
Sprague, who essayed a bomb-dropping
stunt over Lynn, Mass., the
other day, five bombs which exploded ,
simultaneously while the biplane was ,
lost in a fog bank were of a com
paratively harmless type. Had they ,
been bombs loaded with more than a
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small quantity or explosive uoui uccupants
of the biplane probably (
would have been killed and the ma- (
chine demolished at an altitude of (
several hundred feet.
Sprague was slightly burned on .
the legs, and his shoes and clothing ]
were burned. He was sitting above
the bomb box, but despite the un- ,
expected explosion retained self-pos
session, and Fish had no difficulty in
controlling the biplane.
Fish, who has done considerable 1
flying in Mexico, planned to show the (
people of Lynn how easy it is for 1
aeroplanes to bombard cities. He
believes that the vibration of the machine
caused the acid in the bombs {
to wash against the fuses, in turn (
detonating the explosive.?Boston ,
Globe. 1
grod, Kalnikowo, Usthobna, Jaroslaw,
Majdan, Lipowiec, Tuczempach, 1
Starej, Soli Laszkac, Wielkich, Oooz- 1
ack, Kolonij, Polskiej, Sanoczanach, '
Witoszynce, Wola, Rzeczycka, Andryanow,
Miekiss, Stary and Miekisz ]
Nowy.
In addition to the above list of
towns in which the churches sus- ^
tained a total loss and where entire- 1
ly new buildings must be constructed 1
after the war, the churches were <
more or less severely damaged at the '
following points: Haczow, Jacmierz, ]
Iwonicz, Pniow, Zalaszany, Miecho- ]
cinie, Warzyce, Kolaczyce, Korczyn, ?
Bukowsk, Besk, Nowotaniec, Dubi- i
eck, Hart, Taniwiec, Moszczenica,
Turza, Turcs, Frysztak, Murowane,
Laszki and Zrecin. ]
28 Priests Taken to Russia. J
There were twenty-eight Roman 1
Catholic priests from various small '
places in the Przemvsl diocese taken |
by the Russians into the interior ot, 1
Russia under similar conditions as j
those who were removed from places j1
in the Lemberg arch-diocese. Among I !
those from the Przemysl See who jj
were removed were the Rev. Fathers ^
Bukietynzki, Roztoworowski, Zatoi- 1
kiewicz, Zawisza, Siedleczka and Pie- ^
kosz. A number of the old priests of
the diocese died during the terrible 1
strain of the hurricane of battle J
which raged around them. (
The diocese of Przemysl has about 1
300 Roman Catholic churches, and, 1
according to the statements made to J
me by the church officials, more than s
half of them in cities, towns and vil- {
lages outside of Przemysl were ruin 1
ed, as were the various schools. The
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the Roman Catholic denomination
amounts to millions of dollars in this *
diocese, but before the problem of j ]
rebuilding them is taken up by the j 1
prelates in charge the people must 1
be given aid and the dread diseases *
must be checked. (
Side by side with the Catholic 1
churches of the Polish people the 1
Jewish rabbis of Przemysl informed 1
me that in this section of Poland 135 '<
synagogues have been completely de- <
stroyed, and that other establishments
for educational and religious i
purposes were also wrecked. The !
loss to the Jewish people, in most 1
part consisting of poor communities, '<
is very heavy, and they are at pres- 1
ent at a loss to know how they will <
rebuild their temples. v j
The Right Rev. Karol Joseph <
Fischer, the auxiliary Catholic i
bishop of Przemysl, who throughout <
the sieges and trials of the city lived
and worked in it, declared that it is 1
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tne wonaer ana puzzie or an rnai j
the city itself shows very little signs 1
of what it has undergone. "Our J
large buildings, which tower heavenward
upon the elevated portions of <
our city, our cathedral and churches, <
our convents and institutions, our <
business section, and, in fact, every ]
place you see for yourself, was not
even touched," said Bishop Fischer. ]
Bishop Fischer himself during the 1
sieges and battles took charge of aid- 1
ing the thousands of wounded who i
were brought into the city, and his i
ministrations won him the recognition
of both army leaders. s
Bishop Joseph Sebastian Pelczar, '
the head of the Przemysl diocese <
when the war broke out, was outside '
of his diocese. Before he could re- <
turn to his home the struggling :
forces in and around Przemysl oarred
his way. It was not until after the 1
Russians were driven back from
Przemysl that he was able to get in.
He has ever since remained at his
post in spite of various changes in
the proximity of the battle lines to
his diocese. He is now one of the
leading factors in planning and carrying
on relief work for the stricken
people in the territory under his
episcopal jurisdiction. The diocese
*
of Przemysl, including the various
places adjacent, has a Catholic population
of 1,100,000 persons.
GERMAN VAR DOGS.
Master of Hounds Telis How They
Find Wounded Left Behind.
How dogs attached to the German
ambulance corps find wounded men
in far-off corners of battle fields and
"report to their masters is well described
by F. J. Bleyler, in charge of
some of these dogs on the eastern
front, in a letter reproduced in the
Cologne Gazette of October 17, says
the New York Times.
Bleyler and his dogs were stationed
at Skwa, in Poland, when he received
instructions to take a number
of them across the Narew with all
possible dispatch, as there had been
a, lively fight and many wounded men
had been left where they had fallen.
Bleyler obeyed, keeping by his side a
dog called Tell, especially adept at
finding wounded men.
* "We drew nearer and nearer to the
Xarew," he writes, "until we came
to the second position occupied by
our troops, when our leader, Lieutenant
G., stopped in order to give
us the necessary instructions. Before
us lay a big stretch of land covered
with scrub, and beyond numerous
potato fields. I walked to
the nearest field, called quietly to
the dog, which I had unleashed,
Look for wounded,' and followed in
the direction taken by Tell. I went
slowly, availing myself of every bit
of cover, for the enemy's positions
were disagreeably near and the humming
of Russian bullets in the air
tvas unceasing.
"Soon Tell returned. His search
had been in vain. I turned more to
the right toward the Narew, approaching
a bit of woods. Agarn,
obeying my order, the dog disappeared
into the darkness. In a few minutes
he appeared at top speed, leaprvi
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jaws against my breast, proving
Nearly that he had 'found.'
"I put him on the leash and off he
went at such a speed that I had to
hang on with both hands. He ran
about a hundred yards and stopped
before a human form crouched down
in the bushes.
"A hand is upraised. 'God be
thanked,' comes from pale lips.
"The man had received a shot in
the leg and, while trying to bind it,
a, second bullet had smashed his arm.
kfter laboriously dragging himself
into the bushes, he had lain there
two days until at last the dog found
him.
"I gave him a swallow of cold tea,
put his knapsack comfortably under
his head, and promised to send bearers
with stretcher at once. In the
meantime Tell had vanished once
more into the darkness. He stayed
iway for a long time. In vain I
summoned him quietly. At last, from
somewhere in the blackness, I hear a
low whimpering, and I catch sight of
Tell with a wounded soldier, who is
holding him by the collar.
"Knowledge of how these dogs do
:heir work is unfortunately not common
among our soldiers. Most of
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:hem think that the dogs must stay
reside the wounded men whom they
ind and give notice of their discovery
by barking. This practice has
ong ago been given up by the German
ambulance corps, since it was
;oo dangerous, and now only dogs
ire sent to the front that noiselessly
innounce their finds.
"I hasten to this second man, who
s seriously wounded by shrapnel,
?ive him a drink and repeat my
promise to send help. For a while
ifter that I have no success; then,
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iuwcver, leu ui5tuvt;i& iw u uuuuumen
at once, who have crawled
nto a crater made by a shell. The
rondition of one of them who has
received an ugly wound in the abiomen,
holds out little hope.
"Tell's next find is not badly
wounded, but has lain in a swamp
pool for two days, breast-high in water
and is so frozen he can hardly
move a muscle.,
"I had to search an hour before I
:ould get any help for these wound3d
men. Then Tell tugs at my
rlothes, makes me strike out in a direction
at right angles, digs furiously
with his nose and forepaws at a
huge hole left by a shell, and lays
bare a human body which has been
lying there partially covered with
sand and earth. The man is unconscious,
but breathes still.
"Now at full speed to the first aid
station, to get stretchers. On the
way I undertake to send help as
quickly as possible. To fetch the
wounded out there in the fields is no
easy matter, for dawn has come. The
stretcher bearers must take advantage
of every imaginable kind ot
cover, since the Russians have appreciably
increased their infantry fire
and now and then their artillery
shoots some shrapnel across toward
us.
"Strange to say, we suffer least of
all from the Russian fire when we
are closest to their trenches. Undoubtedly
the Russians recognize the
Red Cross flag and respect it.
"We got all our men to the hospital
post, but unfortunately two were
beyond help. They lie at the north-,
erly end of the village of Skwa under
Million Jobs Closed to Drinkers.
In the July American Magazine
Dr. Edwin F. Bowers says:
"There are more than a million
jobs in America closed to the man
who drinks alcoholic liquors. This
means that not only the employees
shall not drink while on duty, but
, that he shall keep clear of all public
drinking places while off duty.
"Leaders in this excommunication
of John Barleycorn are the American
railroads, which generally have
adopted 'Rule G,' the mightiest blow
yet delivered at alcohol in industry.
But the railroads are not standing
alone. Other great industries have
come to see that alcohol makes only
for accidents, inefficiency and waste.
Workmen's compensation laws in
many States have helped to open
men's eyes, and business common
sense is keeping them open."
Artichokes.
Artichokes is a coming vegetable.
The French have shown us its utility.
The plant grows wild in southern
Europe.
The artichoke is a graceful plant,
several feet high.
Its handsome leaves and fine appearance
recommend it for ornamental
use.
The artichoke belongs to the same
family as the daisy and the sunflower.
The part which is eaten is the flat,
circular disk which bears the flowers.
The tender base of the disk is also
eaten after the heads are boiled
tender.
Dressed with oil and vinegar, the
tender parts of boiled artichokes
make a good salad.
four linden trees.
"Among those whom we saved not
one, I am sure, will ever forget that
brave dog. They proved their gratitude
when they were taken from the
first aid post to the field hospital by
! asking to be allowed to stroke Tell's
head once more."
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