Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — RUSSIANS KIND TO CAPTIVES [ARTICLE]

RUSSIANS KIND TO CAPTIVES

Czar's Soldiers Fight .Fiercely But Are Cordial to Prisoners, Says Writer. Even when he goes to war with Germans, whom he feels in his soul to be tfle enemies of love, the Russian has no hate in his heart. I have talked to Englishmen and Americans in Russia who have been in the Galician trenches, and they att tell me tbat you cannot get the Russian soldier to bate. WhHe he Is charging, while he is killing, yes, perhaps; but when he comes hack with his prisoners, He gives the captured German his last bit of chocolate, makes him a cup of coffee and does not resent his contemptuous complaint that the coffee is of bad quality and Is bitter without sugar ; no, he pots the German’s baclf, strokes his arm, smiles at him and says: “You are all right, now.”—Harold Begbie, in the Atlantic Monthly.