The Revolution in the Armies
In short, there were two questions to be dealt with, not wholly independent of each other, certainly, but distinct: the moral and the discipline.
12. The Moral of the Troops.
Of the moral of the troops we received at the 6th Army Corps, the 7th, and later at the Russian Army in Roumania, the very best impression.
At the three big meetings when we had addressed the troops of the 6th Army Corps and of the 11th Army—at Wymyslovka, at Iezierna, and at Tarnopol—the men were most enthusiastic.
The meeting at Wymyslovka had this peculiarity: it was held in a little Ruthuanian village, immediately behind the trenches. All the roads leading to the village were within sight of the enemy. Thus the troops came to the meeting-place in small detachments, and our auto- mobiles, which raised clouds of dust, had to keep a certain distance from one another, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the Austrian observers. In spite of that, some
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