Business of Commanders

As the smoke of Waterloo was writing Napoleon's finish, a British officer, sighting the French leader, rushed up to Wellington, told him that Napoleon and his staff were standing yonder, asked that the artillery take a shot at him. Said the Duke of Wellington: "It is not the business of commanders to be firing upon each other."

The Germans announced their policy on this matter last week. To speed movement on the Eastern Front, the German Army was told not to take common prisoners, instead to concentrate on the capture of Soviet staff groups and high officers, leaving the body of Russian troops without leaders.

The announcement followed the death of two Axis generals, indicating that the Russians had a similar idea. At Cernauti, Rumania, 150 miles behind the front line, 58-year-old Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert was killed "in fighting." A Berne report said that Russian parachutists had landed in the town and killed not only General von Schobert but all his staff and the Nazi-liege governor of the province. Seven days later General Mihai lonescu, Chief of Staff of the Rumanian Army, was reported killed in action as his troops hammered at the walls of Odessa.

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