Menaced with extinction by war - European Bison

Article in the Illustrated London News reporting on how the European bison in Lithuania, previously under the protection of the Russian Tsar, was in danger of extinction due to Prussian advances in that area during the First World War. The illustration on the right, by Antoni Kamienski shows a shell bursting among a herd of bison in the great forest of Bialowieska

Bison Bursting Extinction Lithuania Wisent

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