Russian Pillager is Hanged.
A more favorable view of the discipline in the Russian army in Galicia than prevailed during the autumn invasion of East Prussia is given by Leonhard Adelt, the war correspondent of the Tageblatt, who recently visited Neu-Sandec, on the Dunajec River, a short time after it had been evacuated by the Russian army.
At the corner of one street he saw a hook fastened to the wall, from which, as he was informed by the citizens, the Russians had hanged one of their soldiers for plundering. There was still visible on the adjacent wall the following inscription:
“The czar sent out soldiers, not pillagers, to fight for him.”
Adelt goes on to say that the Russians maintained strict discipline in the city. As further examples of their stringency, he mentions that one soldier who stole a ham was given fifty strokes with the knout, while another, who strayed into the quarters of other soldiers and made undue noise there, got thirty strokes.
In Bukowina the Russians demonstrated the sincerity of their newly acquired temperance principles by emptying all strong liquors into the gutters.