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The Great Struggle for Warsaw: With the Victoriousrussian Army on the Bzura and on the Vistula
The Great Struggle for Warsaw: With the Victoriousrussian Army on the Bzura and on the Vistula
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ONE OF FIVE LINES OF RUSSIAN TRENCHES BETWEEN THE BZURA AND WARSAW: PART OF THE TRENCHES AT BLONIE.
r . y -ý MODELS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF ANY ENGINEER OFFICERS ” : TRENCHES IN THE BLONIE LINES, SHOWING GOOD HEAD-COVER AND WOODEN SIDES.
THE ADMIRABLE RUSSIAN TRAINSPORT SERVICE : CROSSING A PONTOO-BREIDGE OVER THE VISTULA
.is·1 – – SOME OF THE OBSTACLES THE GERMANS WOULD HAVE TO CROSS TO RBACH WARSAW: RUSSIAN BARBED-WIRE ERNTANGLEMEN
A CENTRE OF FIERCE FIGTING ON THE BZURA: A GENERAL VIEW OF SOCRACZEW.
4 umD IN THE LmOG o IGT PR WARSAW nBATTLEFIELD PHOTOGRAPHED WITHIm Al OaRa THE ACTION.
‘GROUND FORTIFICATIONS WHICH CANNOT BE IMPROVED UPON ” : A SECTION OF THE BLONIE LINE OF TRENCHES.
A TOWN THAT HAS SUFFERED SEVERELY FROM THE GERMAN ATTEMPT TO REACH WARSAW : A STREET IN SOCHACZEW.
A RUSSIAN TRANSPORT.TRAIN CROSSING THE VISTULA.
ILLUSTRATING RUSSIAN SKILL IN CONSTRUCTING SAND-BAG HEAD-COVER: TRENCUES AD SHELTERS IN THE BLONIE LINES
ONE OF THE FINEST SOLDIERS IN THE WORLD”: THE RUSSIAN INFANTRY IN ACTION–TRENCHES IN THE FIRING-IE
“England can put every confidence in her Ally of the East.” With these words, Mr. Granville Fortescue, writing recently in the Daily T egraph,” contded a remarkahy inteaeting apprecition of the Russian Army and the work of its vaious departments in the war, and of the characteristics of the Russian fighting-man. The Rusian infantryman he dscreibep as “one of the finest soldiers in the world,” while he gives special praise to the work of the transport and conmisariat sia, and of the Enin “The mot difficult probem of modern warfare, transport, has been successfully olved by the Russian Army. Allied to the transport department are the i . . . The kiten, which are, in a word, a stove and boiler on wheels, are driven at night right up to the trenches. In this manner the troops are served with a hot meal.” Again, as to the iWortant work of t :
” There is no better trnch-buildr than the R I have made careful studies of the tenches known as the Blone system, and they might serve as models for the instruction of any Engineer of6cers. The Russian is extraordinarily skilled in woodwork. He also seems to be a natural builder, and the ground-fortifications which he has constructed cannot be improved upon. The greatest care has been taken to get the proper field of fre. The head-cover of the trenches is hardly a foot above ground, and the loop-holes commnand the country for nearly a mile. The fields of high and low wire-nanglemmnts are also built according to the latest accepted ideas.” Blonie is some fifteen miles west of Warsaw, about half-way between that city and Sohaczew, on the Bura, th sowing northward towards the Vitla. In the district round Sochaczew the Germans have made great efforts to break the Russian lines.
undefinedOne of Five Lines of Russian Trenches between the Bzura and Warsaw: Part of the Trenches at BlonieundefinedModels for the Instruction of Any Engineer Officers”: Trenches in the Blonie Lines, Showing Good Head-Cover and Wooden SidesundefinedThe Admirable Russian Transport Service: Crossing a Pontoon-Bridge over the VistulaundefinedSome of the Obstacles the Germans Would Have to Cross to Reach Warsaw: Russian Barbed-Wire EntanglementsundefinedA Centre of Fierce Fighting on the Bzura: A General View of SochaczewundefinedKilled in the Long Fight for Warsaw: A Battlefield Photographed within an Hour of the Actionundefined”Ground Fortifications Which Cannot Be Improved Upon”: A Section of the Blonie Line of TrenchesundefinedA Town That Has Suffered Severely from the German Attempt to Reach Warsaw: A Street in SochaczewundefinedWith the Army Whose Field-Kitchens Carry Hot Soup to the Firing-Line: A Russian Transport-Train Crossing the VistulaundefinedIllustrating Russian Skill in Constructing Sand-Bag Head-Cover: Trenches and Shelters in the Blonie Linesundefined”One of the Finest Soldiers in the World”: The Russian Infantryman in Action—Trenches in the Firing-Line
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