Kapitalismus und Sozialismus

Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1019428651

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-56798

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Eckstein, Gustav http://d-nb.info/gnd/101214995

Title:: Kapitalismus und Sozialismus

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1920

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (120 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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WORK OF THE UNION pensable articles. Such was the general situation as regards the transport of casualties from the front during the first month of the War. At this time, the Zemstvo Union was busily preparing trains for evacuations to the interior, that is to say, for the transfer of the sick and wounded from the clearing stations to zemstvo hospitals far in the rear. 67 Hospital Trains. For the future, however, work at the front was also contemplated. The intention was to maintain, not regular trains, but convoys of six or seven freight cars which, traveling in one direction as parts of troop trains and therefore taking up the least possible space, could, upon arrival at destination, unload and within an hour clean and equip with bedding the unloaded cars of the whole train, place the wounded on board, and return with them to the hospitals. After unloading the wounded at their destination, the whole equipment was to be packed up again and put on board that special convoy of six or seven freight cars, and these would thus be ready again to be attached to the next troop or freight train going to the front. It was important to discover some equipment that would make even the convenient and cold freight car sufficiently comfortable and warm, and the work had to be organized in such a way that the equipment should be packed and unpacked quickly. The division of hospital trains began to function in August, 1914, and on September 1 the first train was dispatched. It had cost 14,000 rubles and could transport four hundred wounded soldiers. Three days after the first train was completed, the Zemstvo Union received a telegraphic order from the head of the evacuation service to send a completely equipped freight car to Petrograd. The officer in charge of the department of hospital trains and his assistant took their places on their cots, the car was attached to the night express train, and on the following morning it reached Petrograd. A few hours later a special commission of generals, surgeons, and engi- neers of the War Department made a careful examination of the car. Explanations were given by the officer in charge. Three days later the Zemstvo Union was ordered to send immediately to the front five trains composed of such cars. On September 17 these trains left for Belostok, passed the boundary line which had origi- nally been set up for the zemstvo by Prince Oldenburg, and thus

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