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Show WEARY MARCH HQMEWARD The Huns, who are endeavoring to make their way back toermany from the occupied portion of Russia, are experiencing ex-periencing many difficulties and enduring endur-ing groat hardships.' True to' instinct and teaching, they have been plundering plunder-ing and pillaging as they go along, and they have been attacked by the Poles as a natural result. As the Russians have taken possession of all the rolling stock, the railroads are not available for use of the German soldiers, and half a million of them are "marching homeward home-ward through mud and slush. . Their condition is somewhat like that of Na-noleon's Na-noleon's "Grand Arrnec" during the retreat re-treat from Moscow more than a century ago, and many of them will doubtless perish by tho wayside. 'What will become be-come of the German and Austrian prisoners pris-oners in the interior oi Russia is still an unsolved problem. There are many thousands of these men, and sooner or later, perhaps in the dead of winter, the - will be compelled to make their i way oat of the country the former kai- j --T nace fur,. ily h.-pM to exploit. Many lo:' them w!b nevt-r si-e the inth'Tlaud aairi, and they will not be given credit fur l:avi:;g perished in a j'-'-t and right- en',:s r;-a-,j. After having brnaiit such t'uutterable. woe upon his own people, it is somewhat surprising to barn that a plot for the restoration of the ex-war lord lias been uncovered in Berlin. Kvi- Idently the council of soldiers is not con- j cerned in anv such movement after! ! what thev have parsed through. ! i ! l |