Show FIRST YEAR OF WAR IN THE EAST the first twelvemonth of fighting between the russians on one side and the lans and germans on the other Is a story of great changes of fortune both combatants being repeatedly peat edly driven back only to show the greatest resiliency in defeat and soon to resume the offensive in a most surprising manner the end of the year however finds the pendulum swinging strongly against the czar he may recover and take again the roads to chacow cracow vienna and berlin but just at pros ent he is on the whole in worse plight than in any hour since the war started hussla s losses in the first year of the war are not approached by those of any nation in any war of history according to reliable estimates she bas had between 2 COO and 4 men killed injured and captured despite these horrible gaps made in her ranks ehe still has millions in the field and her great reservoir of personnel does not show signs of ex haust lon it is not men she lacks but guns shells and brains slow to mobilize on august 1 1914 germany declared war on russia almost immediately the germans crossed the fron tier at thorn and the lans south of lublin they were practically un opposed because of the slowness of mobilization in russia the grand duke echolas was forced to gather his main armies well to the rear of the line of great tort running through koeno grod no Osso wetz novo war saw and Ivan gorod on account of his desire to do all he could to relieve the french who were being driven from northern the north thinking to tako the kursu ang russians in flank with tho south ern section dut the austrians Aust rians were too slow to carry oll the field mar plans and the russians slip pine into a gap in the lines between the germans and their allies the latter the result was the high tide of russian invasion abo austrians Aust rians withdrew over the carpa again leaving przemysla to be besieged a second time the ger mans withdrew to silesia and the russians following closely were able for a brief moment to raid this rich province at Pl eschen at the same time they entered east prussia again but again the german strategic railways proved their undoing aln denburg concentrated at thorn and drove into the right flank of the russian main forces throwing them back on glodz he advanced too tar however and when he bad the russian forces near ly surrounded he suddenly found rus in bis own rear in this ex tremley ty the russians say he telegraphed tor re but before the re sent from flanders arrived the ger mans had managed at frightful cost to hack their way to safety this was the bloody battle of glodz wins second victory with stronger german forces opposing them the russians withdrew to the line of bzura rawa and alda rivers at the same time the aus arians attempting to debouch from the carpathian passes were driven back everywhere leaving BO pals boners with january hindenburg made a third desperate attack on arsaw for ten days both night and day the germans came on then having lost probably 60 men and the russians nearly as many they gave it up unable to reach warsaw concentrated twice stovers force in east prussia and won his second MAP OF CAMPAIGNS IN THE EAST CH r 1 d vr 0 na INA b n tot J W margur jis j y st v choho y nab ff yoche f y I 1 KEY y 0 atran HreK Tp UK m sept i X oct 1 U W 1 0 5 stcl t jr va MM I otora i t i jis as q 0 o 73 joo 4 y r ri ag J I 1 he rr iuan rain hae ar clone to beaw a the tar nelch luarks the tide of ant autumn france by the amazing german rush through belgium nicholas attacked sooner than he otherwise would have done As a result he met two dalsas teis he sent general into east prussia from the south and general into east sla from the east the latter winning the first large engagement of the war in the east at Gumbl nen at this moment the germans be that the french were well in hand and about to be surrounded on their eastern frontier quickly with draw COO men lorn france and hurled them by rail into east sla where they fell upon samsonon Sam sonoH with crushing force in the great ger man victory of tannenberg aug 28 meanwhile the lans leaving only a few troops in gallela to hold back the russians advancing from on the line of the galla alpa struck the russians en masse at kras nik and routed them to lublin moat bloody drive of war ath two armies in difficulty the grand duke decided to abandon one to its fate and save the other lie threw re into lublin and ordered the line of the galla alpa river be forced at any copt in one of the most bloody of the war the russians advanced into east ern gallela and occupied lemberg the russians then advanced to alawa ruska and took the austrian armies in poland in the rear cutting them up frightfully meanwhile von had completed his victory over by turning on and clear ing east prussia of muscovites but though had been defeated and almost anni hl the germans the russians were now as far west as tarnow in gallela while their cossacks were able to make raids into hungary farther south hindenburg concentrated a great suddenly in silesia and began a drive from the west against warsaw and ivan gorod the bl berlan corps arrived in the nick of time to save warsaw from the enemy high tide of invasion hindenburg then drew off the north rn of his army in poland to overwhelming victory there enor moua captures of Rus slana were made and the fortress 0 grafno was at tacked farther west from Osso wetz to the germans retreated to alawa and then tried to flank the russians at which city they took but the russians again flanked the flanking party as they had done at glodz and won an important success february 22 28 in march and april the russians pressed through the western carpa ahlan passes and entered hungary just when their future seemed bright est the germans broke the line in est galeca and let through enormous forces pressing westward irresistibly they took the russian carpathian armies la the rear the latter tried to retreat but vast numbers were captured przemysla which had succumbed to the russian besiegers march 22 fell again into the hands of the austro bermans great german maneuver from przemysla von mackensen drove east through and grodek and captured I emberg tho Gall clan capital then he turned north and marched upon the warsaw brest triangle from the south at the same time the russians in southern galicka putting up a desper ate resistance were driven by von first to the line of the iester and then across the anila alpa to the line of the ziota alpa reaching the vicinity of krasnak in their drive to warsaw from the south the austrians Aust rians sustained a se vere check in the scene of their trl of the previous summer held on this line the germans attacked hot ly from the north and took the town of july 14 the germans now began the grand est maneuver ever seen in the history of human warfare from the windau river in the bal tic provinces all the way along the border of east prussia and in a glean tic sweep through the vicinity of ra dom west of the vistula and a line south of the lublin cholm railway they delivered smashing blows and have reached tho very gates of war |