The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . ess of Przemysl and the city of Jaros-lau offered temporary refuge and sup-porting points, were the Russians able tohalt. Here they rallied and for twelvedays, from May 14, held up the Austro-German advance. Przemysl was evacuated by the Rus-sians on June 3 after being in Russianhands less than ten weeks, and the retreatwas continued to the line of the Grodeklakes, twelve miles west of Lemberg,which was to be the next stand. The Russian withdrawal from the Sanline marked the first larger developmentof the Germa
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . ess of Przemysl and the city of Jaros-lau offered temporary refuge and sup-porting points, were the Russians able tohalt. Here they rallied and for twelvedays, from May 14, held up the Austro-German advance. Przemysl was evacuated by the Rus-sians on June 3 after being in Russianhands less than ten weeks, and the retreatwas continued to the line of the Grodeklakes, twelve miles west of Lemberg,which was to be the next stand. The Russian withdrawal from the Sanline marked the first larger developmentof the German offensive. OccupyingLemberg the middle of June, Von Mack-ensen swung his main army at a rightangle to the north, while with his right hepushed back the Russians to the Sereth inEast Galicia, and on a broad ninety milefront, with Archduke Joseph Ferdinandon his left, along the Vistula, he movedup between the Bug and the Vistulatoward the Lubin-Cholm railway, wdiiehwas the Warsaw-Kieff-Odessa trunk lineand one of the main Russian arteries forthe supply of the whole Polish No Mans Land, A Shell Torn Forest on the Peak of Mt. Grappa, where the Italians Fought the Austrians, 80 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK
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