. Victory in defeat : the agony of Warsaw and the Russian retreat . orbed the greater part of the Russian 15 VICTORY IN DEFEAT effectives and they could not easily increasetheir strength on the Dunajec without rob-bing the even more important Warsaw orCourland fronts, on both of which the enemywere not entirely inactive. What happenedon the Dunajec line was the first of the greatGerman artillery drives. I cannot, of course,verify the statements as to numbers of theenemy, but I give here the figures as estimatedby the Russians. In addition to a number ofAustrian corps already on the Galician li
. Victory in defeat : the agony of Warsaw and the Russian retreat . orbed the greater part of the Russian 15 VICTORY IN DEFEAT effectives and they could not easily increasetheir strength on the Dunajec without rob-bing the even more important Warsaw orCourland fronts, on both of which the enemywere not entirely inactive. What happenedon the Dunajec line was the first of the greatGerman artillery drives. I cannot, of course,verify the statements as to numbers of theenemy, but I give here the figures as estimatedby the Russians. In addition to a number ofAustrian corps already on the Galician line,the Germans sent at least six new corps forthe first blow, while some place the numberas high as ten. The sector chosen forattack was that lying from Tarnov towardGorlica. The Russian observers quickly de-tected during the last days of April thehitherto unheard of concentration of gunswhich they estimated to be 2,000 in numberon a front of forty miles. These guns weresaid to be grouped in tiers, one battery behindanother, the heaviest being in the rear. The 16. oBERLIN ODHESOCN BRESLAUg . fj OPRAGUE *^ 7: ^^6-c^° AUSTRIA HUNGARY * ^VIENNA * o o o oo~- CZERNOWITZO^ -g- Beginning of the Teutonic advance in Galicia, May 1, 1915 / ^?t Pi \ ^ ja VICTORY IN DEFEAT sizes ranged all the way from the regular fieldartillery up to the heavy Austrian siege was claimed by the Russians that in this hostof guns there were 200 of eight inches or the largest were the Austrian 12-inch Skoda howitzers. There was little thatthe Russians could do to guard against thisimpending avalanche save to wait patientlyfor the storm to break and do their best tooutlive the fury of shell and machine-gun firewith the hope that they could then repel the in-fantry attacks which were sure to follow. Thestorm broke on a front of forty miles whichwas held by three corps, the more particulardesignation of which does not help this two hours the enemy batteries fired, ac-cording to
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