Стихотворение ~ Странные истории: Baby AT войны - субботы, 3 Апреля 1915

Впечатление рисунок Волги солдата и ребенка - By Jamie Mann

Sredi strannykh istoriy Karpatskogo
Gory, vklyuchennyye boy pekhoty
Outpost, vo vremya shtorma tyazhelogo snega.
Shestichasovoy boy prodolzhalsya, kak suchki
Iz belogo veshchestva brosilsya o nikh.

Avstriytsy stolknulis' s russkimi, i tol'ko
Nebol'shoye rasstoyaniye pyatidesyati yardov mezhdu nimi.
V protivnom soyuza vzaimnogo obvineniya, kak
Storony nashli samosti podvergayetsya vnezapnoy
Avalanche, chtoby zastryat' i polovina pokhoronen.

S snega do talii, ne v sostoyanii dvigat'sya,
Soldaty, kak kornevykh derev'yev, vse yeshche borolsya.
Muzhchiny prodolzhali strelyat' drug na druga -
Odin za drugim strel'ba drug v druga.
Togda sil'nyy sneg prishel v drugoy osen'yu.

Russkiye byli brosheny protiv avstriytsev;
Tumbling i poteri iz ruk oruzhiye -
Pochti v udush'ya, ruka protiv ruki,
Opredelennyye armii svoditsya k bor'be s
Bezoruzhnym v sugrobakh, chelovek protiv cheloveka.

V drugom meste, dal'she po doline, bor'ba
Stal svoditsya k patsifizma - bez umeniya
Dlya voyevat' v takikh usloviyakh, russkikh
Dvinulsya vpered i pomog avstriytsy,
Chtoby spasti svoikh tovarishchey ot snezhnykh zanosov.

S pomoshch'yu etogo metoda avstriytsev, na nomer sorok,
Byli vzyaty v plen - mnogiye iz soldat
Stradaniye s obmorozheniyem - vo, kogda dvenadtsat'
Iz svoikh muzhchin poddalsya i zamerz,
V gornoy pod"yema Vengrii kraya.

Yeshche dal'she vniz v nizmennoy strany,
Rabota v predgor'yakh, uvidel tretiy
Armiya o Dunajetz v boleye prostoy boy -
Sushilka strana pod yarkogo solntsa, gde
V ozhidanii tret'yego voysko dvinulos' na Carcow.

Situatsiya y armii sidel na
Reka Dunajetz k litsu avstriytsev;
Stremyas' idti dal'she Krakove - vrag
Zashchita goroda bylo skazano, chtoby byt' sil'nym -
Bol'shoy korpus s bol'shim kolichestvom artillerii.

Yezhednevno avstriyskaya obstrel v devyati milyakh byl
Napravlennaya na Tarnuv - pri podderzhke nemetskogo
Divizion - avstriytsy sdelali mnogo atak,
S nochnykh strelkovykh rasstrelov - dvukh avstriyskikh
Storony prevratit' ikh tsel' na rossiyskom uchastke.

Eto prevratilos' v nochnoy ataki, a avstriytsev
Konvergentnaya s dvukh storon - ne znaya,
To, chto russkiye na samom dele snyaty -
S mnogo putanitsy v temnote, oni
Poteryannyye napravleniya napadat' drug na druga v polete.

V drugom meste s liniyami s kazhdoy storony
Na nizhnem Dunajetz oblasti, byli transhei
Ne proshlo i dvadtsati yardov drug ot druga - s ispol'zovaniyem stropov,
Sila granaty brosayut drug na druga,
Pri chastykh peremiriya obmenyat' produkty pitaniya.

Eto kontrastiruyet s ozhestochennoy nenavistnogo srazhayushchikhsya -
Na odnom nekotorom sluchaye, kogda avstriytsy
Ne udalos' vypolnit' usloviya peremiriya, russkiye
Vzyal ikh mest' - na perekrytiya nebol'shoy
Vodopad, chtoby massy kholodnoy vody na vragov.

O Zaklieyn, na peredney Krakove, priyekhal
Odin strannaya istoriya privlech' Tchuvash
Soldat - bol'shoy strashnyy chelovek Volgi.
Vo vremya boya byl nayden rebenok, kotorogo
Otsutstvuyushchiye roditeli priveli k armii delayet prinyatiya.

Nazvannyy papasha Nikolay, posle velikogo knyazya,
Rebenok byl kormila gromozdkoy Tchuvash -
Kto utverzhdal, opyt medsestra, buduchi prozhival
V SSHA - na nuzhdy moloka rebenka, on uznal, kak
Moloko bylo pod rukoy vo vrazheskom Tchuvash lagerya.

Volga chelovek vzyal polnoch' vylazku, chtoby poluchit'
Nekotoryye moloko - tol'ko, chtoby byt' ranen v nogu i sdelal
Zaklyuchennyy - zaderzhannyye uznali o yego medsestroy
Prichiny v provedeniya reyda, ustavilsya na nego s molokom
I otpravil yego obratno na svoyu storonu, chtoby nakormit' rebenka.

by Jamie Mann

Anon., 1915. Сражения в снежных гор - странные эпизоды. Daily Telegraph, [онлайн] 3 апреля стр.9. Col.3. Входит в: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11509880/Daily-Telegraph-April-3-1915.html [Доступ: 3 апреля 2015].

Источник., 1915. Детские вместе с русской армией. Bendigonian: - От клад, оцифрованных газет и более (Бендиго, Вик 1914 1918).. [Онлайн] Доступно на: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/90785786 [Доступ: 3 апреля 2015].

Манн, J., 2015. 100 лет назад - Стихи Джейми Манн. [Письмо] (Личная переписка, 3 апреля 2015 г.).

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Poem ~ Strange Stories: Baby At War - Saturday, 3 April 1915

Impression drawing of Volga soldier and baby - by Jamie Mann

Amid strange stories of the Carpathian

Mountains, included fight of an infantry

Outpost, during a storm of heavy snow.

The six-hour fight continued, as swirls

Of the white stuff rushed about them.

Austrians faced the Russians, with only

A small distance of fifty yards between.

In opposite union of a mutual charge, both

Sides found selves subjected to a sudden

Avalanche, to become stuck and half buried.

With snow up to the waist, unable to move,

The soldiers, like rooted trees, still fought.

Men continued to shoot at each other -

One by one shooting each other down.

Then the heavy snow came in another fall.

Russians were thrown against Austrians;

Tumbling and losing go of their weapons -

Almost in suffocation, arm against arm,

The determined armies reduced to fight

Weaponless in snowdrifts, man against man.

Elsewhere, further down the valley, fighting

Became reduced to pacifism - without ability

To fight in such conditions, the Russians

Moved forward and assisted the Austrians,

To rescue their comrades from snowdrifts.

By this method Austrians, to number forty,

Were taken prisoner - many of the soldiers

Suffering with frostbite - during when twelve

Of their men succumbed and froze to death,

In a mountain ascent of Hungarian edge.

Even further down in the low-lying country,

The operation of the foothills, saw the third

Army about Dunajetz in an easier fight -

A drier country under bright sun, where an

Awaiting third army marched on Carcow.

The situation of the third army sat upon

The River Dunajetz to face the Austrians;

Eager to move on Cracow - the enemy

Defence of the city was said to be strong -

Large corps with large amounts of artillery.

Daily Austrian shelling across nine miles was

Aimed at Tarnow - with support of German

Divisions - the Austrians made many attacks,

With nighttime rifle fusillades - two Austrian

Parties turn their target on a Russian section.

This turned into a night attack, as Austrians

Converged from two directions - not knowing

That the Russians had actually withdrawn -

With much confusion in the darkness, they

Lost directions to attack each other in flight.

In another place with the lines of each side

On the lower Dunajetz area, were trenches

Barely twenty yards apart - with use of slings,

Force of grenades being thrown at each other,

With frequent truces to exchange foodstuffs.

This contrasted with fierce hateful battling -

On one certain occasion, when Austrians

Failed to honour truce conditions, Russians

Took their vengeance - by damming a small

Waterfall, to let mass of cold water onto foes.

About Zaklieyn, on the Cracow front, came

One strange story to involve a Tchuvash

Soldier - a large fearsome man of the Volga.

During the fight was found a baby, whose

Missing parents led to army making adoption.

Named Papasha Nikolai, after the Grand Duke,

The baby was nursed by the bulky Tchuvash -

Who claimed nurse experience, having resided

In USA - for baby’s milk needs, he learned how

Milk was at hand in the enemy Tchuvash camp.

The Volga man took a midnight sortie to gain

Some milk - only to be shot in the leg and made

A prisoner - the detainees learned of his nurse

Reasons in making the raid, fixed him with milk

And sent him back to his side, to feed the baby.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1915. Battles in Snow Mountains - Strange Episodes. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 3 Apr. P.9. Col.3. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11509880/Daily-Telegraph-April-3-1915.html  [Accessed: 3 April 2015].

Source.,1915. Baby With Russian Army. Bendigonian (Bendigo, Vic. : 1914 - 1918) From Trove, digitised Newspapers and more. [online] Available at: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/90785786 [Accessed: 3 April 2015].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 3 April 2015). 

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