Arizona republican., 1915-09-06
WHEN PRzEMYSL
 WAS DESTROYED
DawsOn's Great Picture Showing the TeutOnic Drive Which Cleared Ga licia of Russians at the Columbia

With its thrills. but without it's peril and. robbed of most of it's hor- TOTS, another large audience at the Columbia last night witnessed The battle and fall of Prsemysl," by the American Correspondent Film com pany. presented by the Phoenix Amusement company, which has se- cured the rights for this state for the presentation of this great picture.
 It is an actual picture of the prepa- rntion for the battle and of one side of the battle as seen by Cameraman Albert K Dawson, who was with the Austro- German forces. It is rather more than a picture of the battle It is picture of the drive of the Rus sians back from the crest of the Car pathians through Galicia The pie lures have been made the subject of a lecture by Edward Lyen Fox, the famous war correspondent, Behind the Scenes in Warning Germany"
 There was no setting or posing for these pictures. MT. Dawson took them as they came and at the same time he took big chances with the men who were facing death. With his camera he wasf with the force which finally stormed the last strong 'hld at Przemysl and there appears the only touch of horror, men falling and lying still in that desperate charge
 The picture was intended to be in structive rather than thrilling; it was intended to show the remarkable ef- ficiency of the Teutons, the machine like operations in the work of prepa ration and in the work of death. The picture covers a period of several months. It opens with a forced march the troops followed by the Austrian generalissimo, Archduke Frederick Then comes the trail of the retiring Russians, marked first by the de- struction of the great iron bridge over the Biala. There are camp scenes, bread making, butchering just back of the battle line. and the hur- ried reconstruction of the bridge 'by the pursuers.
 A noticeable feature is the base of supplies of the army which is carried with it. The soldiers must have the best of food and the cattle which are carried along to supply a part of the food like the soldiers, are well cared for on the eve of death. One picture shows soldiers at lunch and dividing their food with the small children of Galicia. which the retiring Russians had turned into waste.
 At dinner on the eve of the bat tie the soldiers dance the "kolo." the Hungarian dance. Let's dance be- fore we die" Then come the engage ments on the San which filled many columns of the newspapers a few months ago. A large detarhment of uhlans sweeps arross the screen and |
 
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 Several scenes show the artillery in l action and here appears the Austrian | ''Skoda,'' only a little less terrible | than the German 42 centimeter guns | which blew Liege and Namur to | pieces Indeed. some of these same | guns had been moved to the eastern | front and were used against the for tresses of Przemsyl
 There was a real thrill in cavalry 1 charge after the passage of the San. The great body sweeps rapidly across q plain, down steep declivity and across a ridge that brings them with Ing range of the Russian fire. There is seen an armored train and later an aeroplane which had been dis patched to locate the Russian bat teries. To do so the aviator had to come within rifle range and when he returned the planes were seen to have been pierced by a dozen bullets
 one picture shows the capture of TWO spies who are being led away to execution but the cameraman wisely eft that out The movement of the army proceeds through snow in the higher Carpathians and through mud in the valley, but it is at all times and rapid. Soldiers and OIL ,ers are always light hearted.
 It might be supposed that a picture aken in such circumstances would be defective but it is remarkably clear md distinct There is no blurring to 'atigue the eye.
 The picture is concluded with President Wilson in the act of lowing md there follow the words, Let us nave peace'' One may get better dea of the war, not the gruesome eatures but the preparation and the conduct of a great campaign from thls picture than from months of reading md StudV