. Victory in defeat : the agony of Warsaw and the Russian retreat . ostground and had broken down the momentumof the German assault which hereafter wasobliged to be content with a few miles gainedeach day. It was clear, then, that the move-ments in the north were not going to besufficiently rapid to enable the Germans toadvance suddenly on the Petrograd line andby cutting the same, menace the immediatecommunications with Warsaw. During these days I spent the bulk of my timebetween Warsaw and the First Army headquar-ters, where I was kept roughly informed of thedevelopments by the staff of the
. Victory in defeat : the agony of Warsaw and the Russian retreat . ostground and had broken down the momentumof the German assault which hereafter wasobliged to be content with a few miles gainedeach day. It was clear, then, that the move-ments in the north were not going to besufficiently rapid to enable the Germans toadvance suddenly on the Petrograd line andby cutting the same, menace the immediatecommunications with Warsaw. During these days I spent the bulk of my timebetween Warsaw and the First Army headquar-ters, where I was kept roughly informed of thedevelopments by the staff of the generalcommanding. During this time I was backof the lines most of the time, though with corpsat the front several times during the was chaotic and uncertain, andfor three days it was impossible to estimatewhether or not the Germans would be able todrive through on to the main railroad line andbring about the disaster that they were hoping 76 KEY ?Russians in Great Battles??Germans in Great BattlesOpposing Linessciti Of mus. 0 >S so 100. Closing in on Warsaw, July 28, 1915 VICTORY IN DEFEAT for. The acuteness of the situation wasaggravated by the sliortage of aminimitioii,which became more and more apparent witheach day that the fighting continued. Whatwe saw daily on tlie roads behind the hne wasdramatic to a degree. I IHiew from informa-tion that I had received at the staff of thegeneral connnanding the whole front thatthere was some ammunition on the way—nota lot, to be sure, but enough to give the FirstArmy at least a fighting chance to hold its the fighting around Wyszkow thesituation was at its worst. The German gunswere pounding away with a continuity thatmade it impossible to distinguish any separatereport. What came to our ears was like theconstant rolling of thunder. To answer thisfusillade the Russian guns had at no time muchand often nothing at all. At the railhead be-hind the lines caissons were waiting for trainsto arrive from Mos
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