[15] Gorlice is the point from which later the Austro-German advance began.
[16] The Russian soldiers cannot get any stimulants and Russian officers very seldom. The Staff of our Army was teetotal throughout.
[17] The universal desire of all our Austrian prisoners, also of most of the Germans.
[18] For Easter.
[19] There are throughout several references to the accuracy of the Russian fire, which was nothing like so sporadic as the enemy's.
[20] A verdict given to me several times by Austrian prisoners. One of our men escaped from the Honveds with his tongue cut out for not giving information. I have seen old peasants who had been shot by the Honveds.
[21] This almost isolated reference to Russian prisoners is suggestive.
[22] The Austrian infantry seldom did so.
[23] I have seen nothing like this attitude on the Russian side, even where our trenches were sixty or even twenty-five yards from those of the enemy.
[24] For weeks before, the Austrian officers tried to keep up the spirits of the men by this promise.