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Show RUSSIANSOLDfER TELLSODDSTORY Relates How Attack of th CzaVa Soldiers Interrupted Execution by Germans Petrogrnd, Oct. 19. I have dovot-od dovot-od the last few days to vlRltlng military mili-tary hospitals hero ana In tbo suburbs. sub-urbs. Few of the wounded huyo any notion of tho results of tho battles lu which they fought; most of them have vivid but confused Impressions ot their Immediate experiences. At' a prhnto hospital dliectod by a Moscow Mos-cow huly I found a soldier who could dusciltio ownts clearly ns well as Wvldly. The soldier la Oslp Tuor-mer, Tuor-mer, who, Judging by his appearance and iiaiiio Ih of Herman origin. Tuermcr was present nt tho light ut Solduu In which the urmy of Nurow droe back thu German rear guard. He wui later present at the battle of Hoheiistcln. Ills coinmundur was tho lute (leiiernl Samsonoff. Tiicrmer's llrtt story Is of a soldier at llnlava who voluntarily uacrlllcod himself. When guarding a bridge nt night the Holdler discovered Ouruiun engineers on the girders underneath. He tired llrst In tho air to summon help and next at the Germans. Tho Oeriiians fired hack. They shouted something, presumably udvlco to tho Russian to leave his post nnd Bur-render, Bur-render, ns the bridge wns about to bo blown up. Tho guard stood nt hla Post and continued to Are. The Germans lied from the bridge. A moment mo-ment later the bridge nnd the guard Hew Into the air. Tuormcr has that confidence which Is characteristic of ull soldiers that whatever the general result ot the battle, his own hUIo wins lu ull detail de-tail fighting that comes within his personal observation. He described to me tho fight near Soldau us the fiercest he had seen. I quote from my notes: "W drove the Germans out ot thrco lines of trenches. From tho prisoners we learned that soven companies com-panies who wcro surprised by and enfiladed lost 340 killed und wound ed. A thing occurred In this fight which would mnko your flesh creep. Wo noted as executioners for tho Germans. Ger-mans. Wo surprised a Germau outpost out-post on a hillock with n camp behind It. "Prusslnn discipline Is sovcrer than ours. With us many mon convicted by court martial ot offenses get off with n chance to distinguish our-solves our-solves by somo dangerous exploit that is, If tho offenso Is not dishonorable. dishon-orable. Tho Prussians keep dlsclp line by shooting. "When our men got noar tho dor-mnn dor-mnn enmp thoy stnrted to creep. Over Ov-er the raised edgo of n drain they saw a queer thing. A young Gorman blindfolded, stood before a firing party. par-ty. Our men were so taken aback by this that thoy ceased to crawl for-war. for-war. '' f "At this moment on tho Prussian left up camo a second body of our men. These poured n volloy Into the enemy. Tho first man to fall was the condemned soldier. "Tho Germans, who numbered nbout two companies, put up n light and then ran away or surrendered . They left their wounded nnd with them tho condemned soldlor. This soldier had n bullet through tno thigh nnd wns Insensible from loss ot blood Ho wns corrlcd olf by bearers, who know nothing ot tho firing party uf fair nnd wns attended by n iirgenn. "After the surgeon had stopped the bleeding from tho leg, ho said: "ThH man 1ms nn old wound on his face; It is quecrly bandaged. Ho took the blindfolding bnndngo from tho Ger-mnn's Ger-mnn's fnco nnd paw there wns no wound. Tlio Gcrntf n did not tell us, tynnt ho wns filiot IT . H(? ilk".." ' |