. Nelson's History of the war. ans had theirs close tcthe water, and on the east bank. Skiernievice wasin German hands, and the Russians front crossedthe railway about two miles east of it in a clearingof the larch forests. On Sunday, 31st January, von Mackensen hacconcentrated masses of artillery all along the fromof the Rawka, and down the Bzura as „far as Sochaczev. He made his great ? j artillery bombardment on a wide front in order tcpuzzle the enemy as to the direction of the mailattack. But in the meantime he was getting to-gether his strength of men and guns on a line o:seven miles in
. Nelson's History of the war. ans had theirs close tcthe water, and on the east bank. Skiernievice wasin German hands, and the Russians front crossedthe railway about two miles east of it in a clearingof the larch forests. On Sunday, 31st January, von Mackensen hacconcentrated masses of artillery all along the fromof the Rawka, and down the Bzura as „far as Sochaczev. He made his great ? j artillery bombardment on a wide front in order tcpuzzle the enemy as to the direction of the mailattack. But in the meantime he was getting to-gether his strength of men and guns on a line o:seven miles in front of Bolimov. Here, on the even^ing of Monday, ist February, he had not less tharseven divisions—140,000 men *—including variou!units of the Prussian Guard brought up from LowiczThis gave him a strength of something like ten rifleiper yard. That night the artillery, working by the mapbegan a terrific preparation from the slopes wes * The British at Ypres held a line of eight miles for tw(days with a single The Third Attack upon Warsaw: the Battle on the Rawka.(The black line shows the Russian front.) THIRD ATTACK UPON WARSAW. 17 of the Rawka against the Russian position on theBorzymov crest. It was snowing heavily, and undercover of the guns and the weather the infantry ad-vanced up the slopes. Their formation was massed,sometimes ten and sometimes twenty-two men were mowed down by Russian shrapnel andmachine-gun fire, but the impetus of numbers carriedthem into the first line of Russian trenches. Allalong the front, from the castle of Borzymov pastVola Szydlovska to Goumin among the woods anddown to Semica on the Skiernievice-Warsaw rail-way, the Germans gained ground. A second andthen a third line of trenches were captured on theTuesday, and by that evening the Russians had beenpushed back to the crest of the ridge, and in someplaces beyond it, where the ground began to slopedown to the little river Sucha. Von Mackensen had laid his plans well. H
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