Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-28
CUPBOARD WAS BARE BEFORE AUSTRIAN
 HEROES WOULD QUIT
Stirring Account of Conditions at PrzemysI Before Fortress Was Surrendered Is Given in Off Cial Report.

clal Report.
 BUDAPEST April 27.-A fuu des cription of the history of the fortress of Przemysl and it's garrison has been issued by the Austrian General Stan giving an account of the capture, thu sunerings of the men and details re lating to the provisioning of the gar rison The statement in part is as | follows
 "The garrison of the fortress held Przemysl to the very last hour that human force could do SO I'm the mill tary sense of the word General Kus mansk only surrendered when such course was dictated by humane ano military considerations On the day Of the surrender there was not a sin gle morsel of food in the fortress, and no breakfast could be supplied to the men
 Nothing positive is known yet as Co the terms of surrender but presum ably they had to surrender uncondi tionally and Generals Kusmanek and Tamassy (chief of the Honved forces were taken prisoners with all the gar rison Under theme were the Hon we'd division Of Versacz, the East Cali elan Landweir the Northern Hungar rison Under thme were; the Hon garian Artillery Division, and the for artillery detachment of the First Aus trian Landsthrf Artillery.
 Events have developed around Przemysl more quickly than was el pected During the last sortie 1t wal ascertained that the Russians Ina built ounterfortifiCaticns all arounc 1 the fortress even in the direction O. their own territory. preparing for al eyentualues. In fact. the Russian built new fortress an around the be sieged tcrntcy The fortiGcation were SO constructed as Go constitute an impregnable obstacle to inward al lacks just tie couuterturm of the fol tiiications and defensive works of tn, fortress itself The Russian ring wa constructed exclusively against Prze mysl with unparalleled skill and rapid ity and with all available means O modern technique
 "On the west a well-fortifed defend ing line and on the southn large Rus sian army stood il the way of any al tempt to relieve Przemysl In addi ton tho roads leading towards Rus sia were well fortified as Che las !. sortie proved This was the militarg !. situation Of the fortress during the last weeks.
 The last sortic was directed towart ,he east and was undertaken. no with tha view of 'enectiue the relic of the fortress but to find out if th surrounding Russian force was
 troug toward Grodeck and Lcmber. as in the other directions. and wheth ar the Russians had fortified thei { positions in the Grodek direction a. well as 10 he south and west of th, z .ortress
 With regard Co provisions the for l .ress was well supplied al the outset but the stores were consumed at th,
 -ime of the first investment whicf
 asted until October IT, On that datt ! Inc fortress was relieved and Genera Borvevich entered the fortress witt
 lis army. The railway lines had beer blown mp by the retreating Russians | On the Galician roads it was impossi ole to transport anything at that time and this fact obliged ms to provision ,he army lighting to the east of Prze
 nysl from the stores Of the fortress
 he army being cut off from an othei points of supply
 'lt was thus necessary to draw pro visions from the ample stores of Prze mysl in the hope that as soon as th, railway line was reconstructed the stores could be replaced The rail
 way line was reconstructed and or October 28, the first trains began tC move toward the fortress.
 "At the end of ten day, however and before the deficiencies could Dc made good Przemysl was invested anew
 At this period the situation I | North Poland made it necessary for u. Co withdraw our flank is Galcia Dur ing the ten uays at our disposal the transport of ammunition took drs place The question of provisioning the fortress appearing at that time tl be secondary natter when eventu ally food supplies were dispatched to 2 Przemysl, it was too late.
 During the first days cf the invest ment in November General Kusmanel took stock or Che available quantity of foodstuns and drew up a scale oi rations He took great care that neither officers nor men should gel more than the minimum of every thing For breakfast they had only tea for their midday meal a small piece of meat and half a pound ol bread and in the evening tea again with some brea~ To add / the meal supply thousands Of horses were slaughtered. which was all the more | uaeoaearu am arnouuf rf tha anorfa fs t