Almost a month into the war, photos are now starting to appear in American papers. Of course, war reporting a hundred years ago was not an instantaneous affair, especially when it came to photojournalism. Every photo in an American paper had to cross the Atlantic by steamer before publication.
This photo, from an Arizona paper, shows a German pontoon bridge, probably in Belgium. The caption notes that the destruction of bridges in Belgium and France did little to slow the advancing German troops, since German engineers carried the materials to quickly construct bridges such as this one.
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