A letter from Prince Joachim, the Kaiser's youngest son, who was
recently wounded in action against the Russians in the East, to a
non-commissioned officer who rendered first aid to him, was given
out here by the German Information Service last night as follows:
"MY DEAR CORPORAL: You surely must have thought me ungrateful for
not having thanked you ere this for your kind aid. I would have done
so long ago had it not been for my removal to Berlin. To-day the
Empress read me your letter, which was a source of great joy to me
and her Majesty. At the time when you rushed on with your company I
did not find an opportunity to thank you for your faithful aid. I
shall always be grateful to you for it. That was true comradeship.
I trust you are in good health when this letter reaches you. Did
Private Ewe get a new package of bandages? I have reproached myself
for having taken his. And now farewell and remember me to all the
boys of the 83d, my Cassel friends, and tell them that I shall be
back as soon as I am able to get on my feet again. Your thankful
comrade,
JOACHIM,
"Prince of Prussia."
"TOO AWFUL TO DESCRIBE!"
An eyewitness, a soldier who took part in that fearful siege,
describes his impressions of the slaughter near Przemysl:
"The fury of the Russians' attack was shown by examination of the
battlefield. The bodies of fallen Russians in the zone of our
obstacles formed great piles many meters high. It was a terrible
sight. I was one of a squad accompanying the examining officers. It
was too sickening to repeat. Those masses of dead and dying wounded
men. The dead were not so terrible--so sad to me!--as those wounded.
"It was the living--the writhing creatures, in that mass of
humanity, causing the piles of flesh to quiver, as these helpless
ones struggled feebly to escape."