RUSSIAN RETREAT BEFORE THE TEUTON DRIVE TO WARSAW
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY · WRECKED BRIDGE · GUNS AT GRODNO · BRIDGE OVER THE DRINA · AMERICAN DOCTORS · SERBIAN DEAD · FORT AT PRZEMYSL
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An Austrian telephone station in a bombproof shelter. Efficient
telephone service is a most important detail in conducting a campaign
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| The triumphal entry of the Austrian uhlans and artillery
into Przemysl. Their horses are decorated with sprays of
leaves |
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| A bridge on the Kalesch-Warsaw line blown up by the
Russians in their retreat toward Warsaw. At the left is the
pontoon bridge built by the Germans |
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| German artillerymen at Grodno, Russia, digging out
a carefully concealed Japanese gun, together with other supplies
of Japanese ammunition |
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| In the foreground is a temporary bridge across the
Drina, while on the west bank there is a long row of gun positions
and of dugout shelters |
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| These two Americans, Dr. Richard P. Strong (left) and
Dr. Edward Ryan, aided in stamping out the plague of typhus in
Serbia |
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| Serbians who died from typhus. American doctors and nurses
aided in stamping out this dreaded disease, which followed the
horrors of invasion in Serbia |
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| The effect of Teuton shells on the forts of Przemysl,
Galicia. This fortress fell to the Russians after a long siege,
but was recaptured by Teuton troops |