Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-09
GREATEST PROBLEMS EVER
 IN TROOP TRANSPORTATION
Have Been Worked Out During the
 Present War in Europe.
(speciaI to The BulIetfn. ,

Washington, D. C.. June S.-The recent debarlation of Russian troops | age at first reported to have begun at Archangel the port on the White Sea which is supposed to have been ice bound at the time when the expedi- ton weighed anchor, emphasizes the fact that the present war in Europe has presented greater problems in the transportation of troops than any oth- CT conflict in history. The National Geographic Society, in bulletin is- Eued from it's headquarters in Wash ington today, gives some striking summaries of distances travelled. The bulletin says:-
 "The manner in which troops lave been transported from the four cor ners of the earth to be hurled into battle on the fields of France, Serbia, Mesopotamia and GallipoH quickens the imagination and commands the admiration of the observer as no siIni- lar series of military enterprises in world history. While lacking the spectacular elements of Caesars voy age to Britain; of HannfbaPs conquest of the Alps, of the march of the 10, 900 Greeks inmortalized in Xenophon's Anabaisis: of the amazing march of Napoleon's Iegions into the heart of Russia and their calamitous retreat before the infantry of the snow and the sava1ry of the wild blast, the problems involved in bringing millions of fighting men across vast ocean wastes, during the last eighteen months, are almost staggering in their complexity.
 'fBecause her colonies are far more widely scattered and because her com nland of the high seas has carried with | 1t greater responsibilities in this direc- tion, England has been the chief long distance carrier of human food for the mighty maw of the modern god of war. She has brought her South Afri- can colonials from Cape Town to Cal | ais; her troopshaps have sem1-circled the globe, distance of nearly 1,0OO miles, to bring Australians from Mel bourne to Marsetilles, by way of the | Suez; her Ghurkas have been brought | from Bombay to Bruges; her Indian garrisons from Calcutta to Constantf- = nople; her Canadians from Montreal to the 1arne, and her volunteers from New Zealand to SaIonika- From her own shores. in the meantime, there | has gone forth a stream of Scotch, IT, ish and British trops to France, to | Serbia, to Gallipoli to Suez and to Alden. The distances between these many points aggregate more than | 50,000 miles, equal to twice the cir conference of the earth. Traveling at the speed which 1t maintained for a single day during its voyage in 1911 | when a new record for transatlantic speed was established, the Mauretania would require two and a half months to complete the aggregate voyage. France too, has sent her soldiers Il thousands of miles by sea, MarseilIes being the chief port of ennbar4ation for troops bound for Salonika, Galli- | poll, Albania, and Serbia, while her l Turcos, brought from colonial Algeria, | have served to swell the ranks of the men under Gen. Jofrre in Northern France.
 "A voyage of the Russians from | Archangel to Marseilles would not be a distance record for this war. If her transports were to take the shortest l course through the English Channel l the trip would be less than 4,500 miles
 while the arc of the circle described
 beyond the British Isles, in order to
 avoid the German submarines would
 make the actual length of such voy- age matter of speculation. What ever the distance travelled, however
 it would seem puny compared with the
 historic voyage of Rozhestvensld's
 fleet from Liban on the Baltic, around
 the Cape of Good Hope, to the Straits
 of Tsushima, during the Russo lap
 anese war, a trip of more than 5,00(
 miles.
 Less haught with danger but more
 than twice as long as the Archangel-
 Marsei1les routs, has been the voyage
 of the Russian troops who landed iT
 France few weeks ago from Dalny the Manchurian port. By way of tn, Suez Canal this Is 10000 mile trip