Sidney Telegraph in Sidney, Nebraska

War Casualties and Civilians Mixed in Distant Front Scene

An impressionistic fragment from Burlington Hawkeye recounts a distant European siege with a Russian general, a Turkish ally, and an American journalist observer. It sketches a wounded, overwhelmed man awaiting a medic, the tense dispatch process, and passing portraits of locals from a gunny sack wearer to a milliner’s clerk, all in a brisk, newspaper-voice style.