Show SUFFER COLD frightful agonies ABon tc endured Endur edby aymen men at th tha front between frost sa s1 1 i A and fire 1 that Tha winter introduces many cultrea for tho the warring natrona of c europe ta Is quite dentandt eviden den tand some of these are illustrated in astrik lne manner toy by episodes of other camp campaigns related in the scientific american an that Thai wInt winter er adds greatly to the difficulties and hardships pt odthe the warring european nations notions cannet be doubted jt it Is true that improvements in id milli i tary methods and eq equipment ment have made impossible colossal horrors an those thosa attending Napp napoleons loons retreat from moscow or evea eveaj those incidental to the th operations of the allied armies anth inthe 0 Cil meau war yet the rigors ot of s winter are still a factor to bo be reckoned with I 1 in the atra humanitarian mani aspects of the war As toche sufferings entitled entailed upon khe soldiers a few illustrations will wan show that abe these se are ara still inevitable of the fighting in manchuria in iii january 05 during daring tiie th e ru russo SAO anese anese war sir lan ian hamilton horsemen galloped about the field with the roam foam and dripping ewe sweat at af pf the horses changing into ii a crust like snow and long dangling icicles the fifth division only 70 yards distant from the russians near Hel koutal t at had the choice between frost and fire e stamped their feet to keep litin ahem hem the russians expecting nn ad kanip 9 fired on them when the japanese remained quiet they lost their toes four foar hundred of them were foid fo id zd to be suffering buffering from tosho flost bit the next morning an ah lepi 0 o de in tho the defense pt of plevna in id 1877 might well be repeated today ift recorded by bf capt W V I 1 k herbert th the e gentry service in ou our felp redoubt he writes as as well a as s throughout the camp was was of a cruelly bryere idere cha character i reater in the rigor of a bulgarian yd winter riter the original tour four houra boura had to 0 be reduced to two and then tofu to onn hour ff fixed aed almost burled alive jn in a hole four foot feet deop deep with the part of the body ekpo expo exposed bed to t the h A bitt bitter qi blasts the lower embedded n n be e raen arpe ground unable to move move atho the slightest attempt at a trot the vory very act bt stepping out of 0 the ahe hole attracted the bullets insufficiently fed compelled to exercise ceaseless cease lOBS vigilance ilg ilance struggling against the dangerous drowsiness engendered N by frost the men looked upon sentry duty pis as the aa last refinement of torture |