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| A Russian floating mine brought ashore along the River
Weichsel. The German soldiers are inspecting it and listening
to an explanation of its design |
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| German soldiers resting on the sands of Skatre. They are
on their way to capture the Baltic port of Libau, Russia |
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| A German observation station in a tree overlooking the
valley of the River Memel, or Niemen, which flows through Poland
and East Prussia |
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| Two German cruisers—the "Themis" and the
"Lubeck"—in the harbor of the Baltic port of Memel, not far
from the Russian frontier |
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| A disinfecting apparatus used in one of the large hospitals
in Petrograd. Bags containing patients's clothing are inserted in a
huge cylinder, where the disinfecting takes place |
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| The town of Gerdauen, East Prussia, which was burned during
the Russian invasion, when for a time East Prussia suffered like
Belgium and Poland |
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| Austrian soldiers reverently listening to an open-air
religious service in front of a wayside chapel in Galicia |
CHAPTER XXVIII
CAMPAIGN IN GALICIA AND BUKOWINA—BATTLE OF THE DUNAJEC