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Show SITUATION ON POLAND FRONT Associated Press Correspondent Correspon-dent Describes Hardships and Almost Superhuman Work of Germans. TRENCHES AND GRAVES Fine Equipment of Germans and Energetic Preventative Measures Saves Many Cities. Headquarters German Army in Po-land, Po-land, Dec. 20. (By Courier to Berlin, Ber-lin, Correspondence of the Associated Press). From Kutuo to the headquarters headquar-ters ol General Von Mackensens army, to one of the divisions to which the Associated Press correspondent has been temporarily assigned, runs one of the boggy trails over which the German transport service has done almost superhuman work in bringing forward ammunition and supplies for the operations against Warsaw for the last two months A powerful automobile was barely able to plow its way over this track to army headquarters. On most of the lesser roads progress in automobiles automo-biles is utterly out of the question. Ammunition wagons with lightened loads barely are able to struggle along behind three span of horses. The route runs for seventy-five miles through an almost continuous battlefield, scarred with Russian and German trenches. Kolo, at a crossing cross-ing on the War the river, was the scene of the first big engagement of the present campaign. The battle of KuUitf, the name of which is scarcely Known in Germany, was marked by some of the heaviest and most sanguinary sangu-inary fighting of the war. Lodz lies thirty miles to the south of Kutno, Lowicz, for the possession of which a great battle has just been waged is twenty-three miles east of Kutnq and the line of the Bzura and Raw ka rivers, which forms the present pres-ent dividing line between the Russian and German armies, is only eight or ten miles beyond Ixwicz. Trenches and Graves Scar Landscape. All this battling has left its unmistakable un-mistakable Imprint on the country Trenches, some of them months old, and others on which the upturned earth is still fresh and yellow, run in all directions. Little "half moon breast works show where cannon have stood. Soldier graves dot the landscape. the German mounds marked by a cross and the spiked helmet of the fallen soldier, the rarer Russian graves usually showing the Russian cross with its double cross bar. Kutno Is the present head of the railway, which the German railway corps is rebuilding in the rear of the army at the rate of from five to eight miles a day. This railway has been destroyed again and again during the operations, in many places so thoroughly thor-oughly that it was afterwards bard to establish iust where the original roadbed road-bed had lnin. The brldpr-n on it. as General n Ludeudorff. Von Hinden-burg'e Hinden-burg'e rl'ief of staff- remarked, have been must of the time "in the air." Many Red Cross Honpitals. Sidings here were full of Red Cross hospital ' trains admirably arranged coaches with the beds swung on springs to avoid jars. Each train has coaches for the surgeons and nurses and a fully equipped operation car In which urgent operations can be performed without delay. The wounded after reaching these cars on their way to the base hospitals in Germany have every comfort possible; poss-ible; their lot up to that time in the peasant huts, which, perforce, do service serv-ice for field hospitals and in the jolting jolt-ing wagon transport over up-torn roads to the railroad is extremely hard. Here at Kutno was also a field laundry iu full operation It is transported trans-ported by automobile ind can be brought into service almost before boiling water can be obtained. Power to operate the laundry machinery is furnished by the automobiles on which the laundry is transported Cholera at Kutno. At Kutno the first cases of cholera were reported. The whole region is 'cholera suspect." but, so far, the disease has been confined almost entirely en-tirely to the chil population. In the army most energetic preventative measures have been taken. Every man in the eastern armies has been vaccinated against the cholera Water cookers, although still in limited numbers, num-bers, have beeu set up in the principal army centers to supply boiled drinking drink-ing waters for soldiers and civilians. The troops in the field have been ordered or-dered to drink only tea or coffee. All suspicious cases of intestinal trouble are promptly isolated. |