The story of the great war . alicia, however, the Russian advance went on unchecked, meetingapparently no real resistance. Lemberg was captured; Cracoweven was threatened, and many of the passes of the Carpathiansfell into Russian hands, so that by January the greater part ofGalicia had been overrun, and there seemed to be some possibilitythat the Russians might be able to capture Przemysl and eveninvade Hungary. Long before this juncture, Hindenburg attempted a direct assaultupon Warsaw. Having gotten possession of East Prussia andhaving thus made safe his flank and rear, he did not at this t
The story of the great war . alicia, however, the Russian advance went on unchecked, meetingapparently no real resistance. Lemberg was captured; Cracoweven was threatened, and many of the passes of the Carpathiansfell into Russian hands, so that by January the greater part ofGalicia had been overrun, and there seemed to be some possibilitythat the Russians might be able to capture Przemysl and eveninvade Hungary. Long before this juncture, Hindenburg attempted a direct assaultupon Warsaw. Having gotten possession of East Prussia andhaving thus made safe his flank and rear, he did not at this timepropose to pay any attention to the Russians in Galicia, knowing 140 THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR full well that if Warsaw should fall Galicia would be a death trapfor the Russian army. From October 20 to October 27 he delivereda tremendous series of direct assaults upon the Russian lines beforeWarsaw and was everywhere defeated by the Grand Duke Nicholas,whose masterlv retreats and sudden counter-assaults checked and Kovnc. 1914 Lubim N GCholm Cra^cow > ^ss.^.^ flJvvncc „ ViENNO © I Poland, 1914. From a sketch by the Author. slowed down the German advance and often imperiled the wholeGerman position. With inadequate artillery and a very smallsupply of ammunition, he fought a masterly series of actions, whichdid gain the time then so essential for the French, and which didprevent the defeat of his own armies by the much larger forces of hisvery much better equipped foes. WITH HINDENBURG IN POLAND 141 General Mackensen then undertook a new assault upon Warsawfrom the northwest, advancing on a broad front between the riversWarta and Vistula. The Russian armies were of course using theVistula as a defensive barrier but its passage did not seem difficultto the Germans. From November to February the pressure wenton but without real success. The loss of men was heavy and thefact was only too conclusively established that the Vistulas heavyfloods were too gr
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