Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

the most remari BILE leaders of the
war. extricated himself from his pre-
dicament with extraordinary skill,
marching his men day and night,
fighting at every step, until at last
he got his sorely PRESSED troops back
to the main body.
Among the officers who did espe-
cially well in this operation was
Korniloff, also destined for leader
ship of later events. who cut his way
sen with indomitable courage and re-
sourcefulness. But Mackensen had
dealt Russia a terrible blow on the
Dunajec. Despite desperate bravery.
the Russians could not head him of.
Przemysl was recaptured by the en-
Then Mackensen wheeled northward,
and Hindenburg, who had been
marking time in front of the great
girdle of fortresses which protected
the Polish frontier of Russia, sud-
denly bestirred himself.
Fortress after fortress fell to him;
soon Warsaw, Poland's capital, was in
German hands.
Still fighting magnifcently, the
Grand Duke Nicholas soldiers were
forced eastward. Brest-Litovsk fell,
Wilma opened its gates to the in
vaders. who claimed 100000 pris-
oners, thousands of guns and fabu-
lous quantities of stores, when, at
last, the freezing Russian winter
closed down upon them and put it's
veto on further fighting.
rightabout face. The Germans, who
had begun to think that nothing but
victory lay in store for them on the
eastern front. suddenly found them
selves battling for their lives, beset
by squadrons of bowling Cossacks on
foaming steeds, borne down by
countless thousands of grim infan-
trymen, with lowered and glittering
bayonets, caught in an avalanche of
death and disaster.
1t was Brusiloff again. The Grand
Duke Nicholas, removed from the
chief command of the Russian armies
after the reverses of 1915, had been
VIGOROUSLY fighting the Turks at
Erzerum and Trebizond. but Brusiloff
had been kept in Galicia and had
spent the winter preparing a stag
gering blow for his over-confident
foemen.
X
Early in June. 1916-while the
French in the west were heroically
defending Verdun against the German
crown prince-he struck with tre-
mendous force against the Austrian
: lines in Galicia. Everywhere they
bent and broke and fled. The Rus
. SLAMS cut gaps miles wide in the lines
of Pf1anzer Baltin and D)ehm-Er.
molli, raking in multitudes of pris.
oners, capturing Halicz and Czerno-
vitz and Kolomea. menacing the Aus
: trian armies with total humiliation
Shouts of exultntion went vi
8 throughout the allied countries at this
l amazing recrudescence Of Russian
; power. For weeks Brusiloff's progress.
continued undated. He and his fiery
lieutenants - Kaledine, Tcherbatchcf
LeschitZky pounded the unluckJ
Austrians until it looked as IL theil
, armies would be utterly destroyed.
Hard pressed though they were il
Y the west, the Germans rushed troop!
, to aid Austria. After lighting al
desperate as any in this most DIES
n perate of wars, the Bavarian Coun
= Bothmer succeeded in keeping thu
n Russians out Of Lemberg, and vol
Lnsingcn, after sustaining terrif
blows along the Stoknod, managed I,
t hold his lines outside kovel
Austrians and Germans had save,
=. themselves by the skin Of their teeth
I In the hands of the Russians the,
had left, some declare, 100000 pris
e oners.
= With each ovcrturn on the eastern
r front she seemed to grow more within
i steal. At the high tide of their sue
= cess she turned away her face from
l the Russians, Sin months after Lin
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