3 JULY 1915, Page 11

In the Times of Monday Mr. Robert McCormick, an American

correspondent, wrote of the astonishment with which he had learned that the Russians had been charged with atrocities in Galicia. While with the Russian troops he bad not only seen no misbehaviour, but had heard no allega- tions of it. At Lemberg the shopkeepers told him that the Russians had kept perfect order. Their only complaint was against the prohibition of liquor. "Any country," he says, "might well be proud of an army which has conducted war as humanely as the Russians have in Galicia."