Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179223

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Polner, Tichon I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/172311195

Title:: Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

Place of publication:: New Haven

Publisher:: Yale Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXV, 317 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XI. Work in the army

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WORK IN THE ARMY train services in the so-called “evacuation to the interior’ which was to continue throughout the War. The conditions under which five complete zemstvo trains had at the outset been dispatched to Belostok have already been described. Subsequently, further trains were dispatched from Moscow in sets of five, and the department so expanded its work that it was able, if necessary, to prepare equipment for an entire train at one day’s notice. Up to November 10, a total of thirty trains (twenty to Be- lostok, for the northern front, and ten to Brest for the southern) had been dispatched for the “evacuation from the front.” Five trains were operating in the “evacuation to the interior,” transport ing the casualties from Moscow to points in the interior. It cannot be said that the first few trains arriving at Belostok received a cordial welcome. At that time the local evacuation au- thorities could see no urgent necessity for such trains. The idea of packing up and again unpacking hospital trains of the kind previ- ously described was positively rejected, simply because it did not fit into the official forms and methods of evacuation. It required a great deal of tact and patient persistence to obtain a sufficient number of cars. After that came innumerable examinations of the trains (among others, by Prince Oldenburg). At last, it became possible to put the trains to work one after another. An order was issued that they should be permanently kept completely equipped. The obsta- cles were gradually removed and normal relations established with the competent authorities. By order of the military authorities, a gradual rearrangement of the rolling stock was proceeding. Among other things, there was an order to include in the trains fifteen fourth-class cars for those slightly injured and one second-class car for the officers. The army authorities were also anxious to provide better facilities for the per- sonnel of the trains. From Moscow the staffs would travel third and fourth class, but in the war zone it was ordered that third-class cars should be provided for the orderlies and second-class for the medi- cal staff. It was naturally only possible to make all these changes gradually, as the required rolling stock became available at Belos- tok. The Polesie Railways presented the Zemstvo Union with twenty splendidly equipped cars for use in bandaging the wounded. The ! See above, p. 67.

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