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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2111915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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766 AMERICAN FORESTRY foot by foot and day after day; fighting each other hand to hand; taking, losing and retaking position after position. In all of this 10 kilometers of forest I dare venture to sa)' there is hardly an acre without its trenches, rifle pits and graves. 'Here one sees where a dozen men had a little fort of their own and fought furiously with the enemy a few feet away in a similar position. Day after day it went on, and day after day troops were poured into the Russian side of the wood; and day and night the continuous crack of rifle fire and the roar of artillery hurling shells into the wood, cotild be heard for miles. But the artillery played a lesser role, for the denseness of the forest made it impossible to get an effective range. Yet they kept at it, and the forest for miles looks as though a hurricane had swept through. Trees staggering from their shattered trunks, and limbs hang- ing everywhere, show where the shrap- nel shells have been bursting. Yard by yard the ranks and lines of the enemy were driven back, but the nearer their retreat brought them to the open country west of the wood, the hotter the contest became; for each man in his own mind must have known how they would fare when, once driven from the protecting forest, they at- tempted to retreat through the open country without shelter. "The state of the last two kilometers of the woody belt is hard to describe. There seems scarcely an acre that is not sown like the scene of a paper- chase, only the trail here is bloody bandages and bits of uniform. Here also there was small use for the artillery, and the rifle and the bayonet played the leading role. Men, fighting hand to hand with clubbed muskets and
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Photo hy Internalional News Service A Trenxh in a Galici.xn Forest MUCH OF THE GROUND OVER WHICH THE CONTENDING FORCES IN THE EAST HAVE FOUGHT IS SIMILAR TO THIS SHOWN IN THE PICTURE. HERE THE TRENCH AND THE FOREST COMBINE TO PROTECT THE DEFENDERS AND MAKE THE ATTACK DIFFICULT

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