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Topical Budget 232-2: Blizzard at the front (1916)
 

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"BLIZZARD AT THE FRONT A terrific blizzard raging in one of the Russo-Hungarian frontier towns. This town has been lost and won several times during the war and is practically destroyed by artillery fire". View up tree-lined snow covered road. Houses are seen either side - little damage is seen. A shell of a large house. A bombed-out church, missing its roof and windows. Four soldiers wander around the church. It is snowing. Interior of the bomb-damaged, roofless church, soldiers wander about.