The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-07
GERMAN POSITION NEAR PINSK
 IS FORTIFIED MORE STRONGLY
 THAN THOSE ON OTHER FRONTS
Elaborate Protective Methods Taken Against Attack By Russians-Natural Distractions Join With Artificial To Steel Defenders From Assault.

entire town, is constantly patrolled, and it would be only matter of min utes in case of an attack before the whole section would swarm with men.
 Though the methods of defense to the south and north of Pinsk; and the city itself, vary considerably, the ma chine gun plays an important part ev- anywhere. Every supporting point in the long chain, both in the dunes and in the .swamps, has at least one of these deadly weapons. And s2, close together are the supporting points that the whole section may be said to con sist of ga "machtne-gun front"
 Artillery plays probably a less inn portant part in the Pinsk section than anywhere else. along any other front. Ehe Russian guns thus far have never been able to reach P1nsk and, do any damage. All shells fired thus far have fallen short. The Germans on the other hand need their artillery only for defensive purposes since it is only a waste of aTnnnunitionA to try to destroy Russian positions across the swamp wben no folIow-up attack with infantry is possible. It is only once in a while, therefore that the roar of guns is heard. Oftener it is the nervous chatter of machine guns firing at Russian scouting patrol
 The German defence incorporates one feature that is as beautiful and
  ing rockets and searchlights that are used on dark nights to illuminate the swamps in search of approaching for ces.1 It is worth the trip from Berlin to see the vast, dark >area suddenly transformed into a, blaze of lights as rockets mount from all of the block houses in the rough senai-circIe, while powerful lights sweep every inch of ground for miles around. Pinsk it. self is squalid to a degree absolutely unknown in American or in. any of the western European states. With the exception of a few buildings along the Pima waterfront, its structures are all one story in height and of old, tumbledown wooden constructions@ Its business has from time immemoria1 been confined practically to the timber which floats down to it on the Pima, 4the Strumen and the JassjoIda rivers.
 In spring and early summer the wa ter rises and inundates part of the town. Just how serious the spring and summer of 1916 is going to be for the German troops is a, question that is giving those in command some worry
 Towering above the dirty, one story shacks, stand three enormous and inn posing churchesHa Russian cathedral a Catholic edifice, Kand a synagogue.
 Of the sixty thousand human beings found in Pinsk when the Germans moved in, fifteen thousand were mis- erable refugees from farther west Poles and Jews who had been driven from their homes ahead of the retreat ing Russian armies and then aban- doned to the care of the Germans when food became scarce. | This horde presented problem that has only partially been solvedby sending back westward some thou sands of refugees, part ito their old homes and part to abandoned farms which they can cultivate and utilize for the time being, and by doing so help to solve the food problem in Pc F land and Russia,