PRZEMYSL BATTLE IN FILMS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 63, 11 February 1916, Page 3

PRZEMYSL BATTLE IN FILMS.

Tiw scene is the extreme trout Rus-

iion trench along the Wrka River position under heavy tire of rifle, machine guus and cannon. With his cameru placed above the parapet Mr R, R. MeCuriiiick. of the 'Chicago Tribune,' tinned a perfect target for the opposing Auitrian sharpshooters. There was a distinct chance that lie would not live to finish the picture, but he took Uiat risk, and determined to keep the ''Nnl; of his machine going, to get as 'micli at the scene as lie could before tlie Indicts bearing his name and adarrived. Doing precisely the same tl'i' l :- in the Austrian trenches was A. K. Dawson, another Americankine|iiat<vriipher, 'J'hey were photograph'"n 'lie (ialician and Carpathians oper,i|' tj le Russian and Austrian ariiiit". i'roin both sides. McCormick ac''"mpanied the Russians on their advniirn on Pizemysl, and Dawson was wth the enemy in the {Jalician drive. A lew months later in the 'Chicago tribune' office the films they secured Wer o joined up and edited. The result ,s ilio most comprehensive motion-pie-''ire rtcord of the war in tho Eastern theiitio yot secured. D'.mn- the battle of Przemysl Daw-

'.'.m w,i', a.=. much' in it as any j_oldier, r -'pe<'i;iHy in the final charge ~"n the. t«rtr.' S> . The actual battle pictures he 'liiK MTiiral are unique. In fact, that jjiu he said about the whole series, hiratiM' it affords an opportunity of ni'Miietiti one is in the Russian trenches waHiiujf big 35 and 40 centimetre guns a ceaseless hail of.death, jftw the next instant one sees the ef- 1 feet, of these projectiles bursting over thp Austrian*. During the final bombardment of Przemysl 700,000 shelft w erc fired in four hours. The batterles doing this are shown in the films, wreathed in clouds of smoke, which do not have time to lift before another ™g volume is discharged in the air. some of the S6 mortars were so big that w-r had to be hauled bv traction enfa* over the Grticiaa roads.