CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I[The Fall of Przemysl]3
II[Warsaw in April, 1915]41
III[An American Doctor in the Russian Army]53
IV[General Russky’s Successor]63
V[Checking up the Situation in Poland]75
VI[A Visit to the Positions]87
VII[A Summer Day on the Rawka Line]99
VIII[The Change of Front in Poland and the Battle of Opatov]113
IX[With the Army in Southern Poland]127
X[An Afternoon at the “Positions”]141
XI[How the Russians Met the First Gas Attack]157
XII[Some Details Regarding the Gas Horror]169
XIII[The Bzura Front in June]185
XIV[The Galician Front]199
XV[The German Drive in Galicia]209
XVI[The Front of Ivanov]221
XVII[Hunting for the Army of the Bukovina]235
XVIII[The Russian Left]247
XIX[With a Russian Cavalry Corps]259
XX[On the Zota Lipa]273
XXI[A Visit to an Historic Army]289
XXII[The New Army of the Former Dunajec Line]301
XXIII[Back to the Warsaw Front]311
XXIV[The Loss of Warsaw]319
XXV[Conclusion]339

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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[His Imperial Majesty the Tsar of all the Russias]Frontis.
[Occupation of Przemysl by the Russians. Austrians leaving as prisoners]4
[Austrian prisoners leaving Przemysl]6
[Russian occupation of Przemysl]6
[Cossack patrol entering Przemysl]8
[Russian occupation of Przemysl. Governor’s bodyguard entering Government House]8
[Destroyed by the Austrians before leaving Przemysl]12
[Principal street in Przemysl]12
[Austrian and Hungarian prisoners en route to Lwow]14
[Austrian prisoners resting by the roadside during their march from Przemysl]17
[Austrian prisoners leaving Przemysl]20
[Russian Governor of Przemysl]33
[Russian occupation of Przemysl. Headquarters of Staff]35
[Feeding Austrian prisoners en route to Lwow]37
[General Hubert, Chief of Austrian Staff in Przemysl]38
[A Russian officer inspecting eight-inch gun]44
[Russian bath train]48
[The Emperor with his Staff]56
[Russian nurses attend to the feeding of the soldiers]56
[Russian soldiers performing their native dance]68
[The Polish Legion. Note the small boy in the ranks as mascot]76
[The Vistula (winter)]80
[Russian officers in an artillery observation position]92
[A first-line trench in Poland]104
[Russian General inspecting his gunners]106
[Telephoning to the battery from the observation position]108
[In the trenches near Opatov]116
[Second-line trenches, Opatov]118
[A second-line trench near Opatov]122
[A Russian first-line trench near Lublin]128
[German position near Lublin]129
[March-past of the Gonogoriski Regiment]130
[Men of the Gonogoriski Regiment cheering King George V]132
[Men of the Gonogoriski Regiment]134
[Howitzer battery in Poland]142
[Cossacks on the Dniester. Officers’ quarters in the woods]144
[The Polish Legion]150
[The colours of the Siberians]164
[Respirator drill in the trenches]172
[Austrians leaving Przemysl]172
[Siberians returning from the trenches]178
[General Brussilov]213
[General Ivanov]222
[My car in a Galician village]222
[G. H. Mewes]248
[Stanley Washburn, Prince Oblensky, Count Tolstoy, Count Keller]251
[Cossacks dancing the Tartars’ native dance]254
[H.I.H. The Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, Commander of two divisions of Cossacks]261
[The Russian soldier at meal-time. Ten men share the soup]268
[Cavalry taking up position]280
[Russian band playing the men to the trenches]280
[After the Russian evacuation of Lwow. The Bug Lancers retreating in good order]290
[A Russian eight-inch gun going into position during the fighting round Lublin]302
[Russian artillery officers in an observation position during the fighting round Lublin]306
[Retreat from Warsaw. Burning crops]312
[The retreat from Warsaw. A Jewish family leaving Warsaw]312
[Retreat from Warsaw. A Polish Jew]314
[The evacuation of Warsaw. Copper and bells were all taken away]316
[The retreat from Warsaw]319
[The retreat from Warsaw. Ammunition on the road]320
[During the retreat from Warsaw]322
[Russian armoured motor-car.]322
[The retreat from Warsaw. Wounded in a barn outside Warsaw]324
[The retreat from Warsaw. German prisoners housed in a barn]326
[The retreat from Warsaw. Artillery on the road]328
[During the retreat from Warsaw. Note wounded man in foreground]330
[The retreat from Warsaw. One of the last regiments to pass through Warsaw]332
[Siberians leaving the last trench before Warsaw]334
[A batch of German prisoners captured during the retreat from Warsaw]339
[Refugees on the road to Brest-Litovsk]340
[Roll call during the retreat from Warsaw. All that was left of them]342
[Resting during the retreat from Warsaw]344
[Wounded returning to Warsaw]346
[On the banks of the River Dniester]346

THE FALL OF PRZEMYSL

CHAPTER I
THE FALL OF PRZEMYSL

Dated:
Lwow, Galicia,
April 1, 1915.