. Victory in defeat : the agony of Warsaw and the Russian retreat . then, it is pretty clear 43 VICTORY IN DEFEAT that it was due not to any new spirit amongthem, but to the German supports. Alongtoward the end of June this stiffening of Ger-mans began to be quietly removed, and fromthe moment the Teutons disappeared theadvances stopped almost at once. In manyplaces they could not be removed at all with-out the Austrians immediately collapsing, withthe result that German troops which were sentas a loan to the Austrians soon became a per-manent necessity to the portion of the frontto which they
. Victory in defeat : the agony of Warsaw and the Russian retreat . then, it is pretty clear 43 VICTORY IN DEFEAT that it was due not to any new spirit amongthem, but to the German supports. Alongtoward the end of June this stiffening of Ger-mans began to be quietly removed, and fromthe moment the Teutons disappeared theadvances stopped almost at once. In manyplaces they could not be removed at all with-out the Austrians immediately collapsing, withthe result that German troops which were sentas a loan to the Austrians soon became a per-manent necessity to the portion of the frontto which they had been sent, and have, as faras I know, never been removed from thattime. In latter June and early July I was inthe south, and in every army I was told thatthe German troops were being pulled out andsent off somewhere to the west and I heard in the Ninth Armv on the Dnei-ster, in the Eleventh near Tarnopol, and againfrom Brussilov himself, who, with the EighthArmy, was holding the Krasne line as far northas Sokal. It was clear then that some big 44. Ruilroad lines in operation in August, 1914. Note the Teutonicsuperiority in rail power VICTORY IN DEFEAT move was pending north of us, and it was theopinion of all with whom I talked that theobjective would be the Third Army, which hadits headquarters at Chelm and was the samearmy which had suffered the terrible mutilationon the Dunajec line in early May. Betweenthis army and the Eighth was a newly formedone called the Thirteenth, which lield theportion of the line between Sokal to a pointalmost exactly south of Chelm. A glance ata railroad map will show that for the Germansadvancing via Rawa Ruska to attack theChelm-Lublin line, meant dragging all of theirguns and transports across the face of thisThirteenth Army. Roads to the west from thispart of Poland were few and far between andover a country which, except on highways, wasalmost impassable for motor transport or heavyguns. The Germans then moved slowly onthis fr
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