WARSAW AND THE VISTULA.
Warsaw lies on the western bank of the Vistula —the wrong side from the Russian point of view—but its main railway station is in the suburb of Praga, on the eastern side. This station is one of the king pins of the scanty Russian railway system, for from here all the lines radiate. In addition, from Sandoraierz, near the Galician frontier, to Novo Georgievsk, 26 miles north-west of the Polish capital, the river Vistula is everywhere deep and unfordable, and it Is bridged only at two points. Warsaw is one oi those points, the other being Ivangorod. The bridges in Warsaw are three in number —the fine Alexander bridge, for foot passengers and ordinary traffic, a road bridge farther south, and the railway bridge, which lies more to the north, under the guns of the Alexander citadel. With a population of three-quarters of a million, Warsaw is the capital of the great Russian province which juts out like a big bastion between Austrian and German territory.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19150731.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1431, 31 July 1915, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
170WARSAW AND THE VISTULA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1431, 31 July 1915, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in