Show FIRST YEAR OF WAK WN IN THE EAST the fire aret 6 twelvemonth of lighting between the russians Ruis laue 0 on a end aldo aide and the Au straas lana and germana on ott the other ie is a etory story of 0 great chal of fortune both combatant combatants being repeatedly peat t edly driven back only to show the greatest rea test resiliency esil lency in defeat and loon to resume the tho off offensive in a most manner Itus lusalle lu fita losat la in the first of 0 the war are cot not approached by ill of 0 my MV n nation in any war of history slow to mobilize on jaust t 1 1914 germany le many de ared war on russia almost the germane germans cro aged the frontier at th thorn orn and the austrians lana south et of lublin they were practically ally us un cosed because ot of the slowness of on in ansala 1 the grand duke nl nicholas lbs las wae was forced 1 to 0 gather hie his V alik armies well to aba rear of the line lime of great fort ruses running through koeno grod r 0 keso etz georgievska sk war w aid 0 on account of his desire to rio do all us could to relieve the french who were ere being abeln driven northern france by the amazing genan ruah through belgium nicklolas attacked looner than be he other otherwise would have done As A a result ho he met two dasas tam he ile lent general Sama Oft into ast prussia from the couth south and general en eral into east fast is 1 from the east the latter winning the ti first large engagement ot of the war in the east at curo bInan at this moment thi oer germans mans be heving that the french were ws well in bind land and about to be ibe surrounded on their eastern frontier quickly with adrew men irolla france ald ld hurled them by rail into east s ern em section atlon ct lon hut put the austrian austrians too low slow to carry out the field were mar anal as and te ge russians slit ill ping into a rap gap in the lines between the germane bad their allies slaught the latter the result was th thi i high tide of 0 russian invasion th thi austrians lana withdrew over the carpa khiane again leaving przemysla to be besieged a second time the oer ger mans withdrew to silesia and the atuf flans following closely were able for a brief moment to raid this rich province provin ve at pl eschen at the same time they entered east prussia again but eatn again the german strategic railways rall waya proved their undoing illa denburg den buri concentrated at thorn thom and drove tabo the right flank 0 of the russian main mala forces throwing them back on ott glodz he ile advanced too far however and when ho he bad the russian near ly surrounded rounded eur be he suddenly found rus slana in his own rear in aba tt extremity tre mity the russians say he telegraphed gra phed for re reinforcements enforce ments but before the re sent from flandera flanders arrived the germane germans had managed at frightful cost to hack back their way to safety this was the bloody battle of glodz wine wins second victory with stronger german forces opposing them the russians withdrew to the itic liz of dzura rawa R awa and nida rivers at the game same time th aus alls arians attempting to debouch from the carpathian passes were driven back everywhere leaving pria pris onera with january hindenburg made a third desperate attack on warsaw for ten days both night and day the germans came on then having lost probably men and the russian nearly a ail many they gave it up unable to reach warsaw hindenburg concentrated iwic 1 Sl evers force in east prussia Pru tsia and yon ron abts second overwhelming Y there enor MAP OF CAMPAIGNS IN THE EAST e V 41 ff yc ggS r ajr e jy sa s1 kly ato HMO um am S I 1 AL ihor ol 01 oct 1 dec 1 jh mars ai 1 0 s 1 L 73 to 14 11 Il it 1 ve A L ot 1 J are abo irm again fl havo 4 a lae ela t e A drw araw a tb 41 1 h 1 till e rt henr ilk 1 where they fell upon sa Bame M no ft irith alth cru crushing ching force in a the 9 great ea t ao er an victory of tannenberg aug 28 the Aust austrians rians leaving only a few troop troops in Is licia to hold wa the Rui advancing from Jira arnopol opol on the lino line of 0 the gaits lipa wk the ais stans en on fit bik rik and nd routed thein lo 10 lublin mot most bloody drive of war with two armies in difficulty the grind duke decided to abandon one to it its fats ate and eave save the other llo re into lublin al I 1 ordered the line of the gara lipa river be forced at any coat in 40 of the moet most bloody moody drives 11 of the J fit the russians Rus Blana advanced into east ra galicia and occupied lemberg Lenber ff i the russians 1 than then advanced to 1111 fa wa ruka rumica and took tuo the austrian 0 IK 01 its in 1 poland lol aIll in n tho rear cutting hern up frightfully I 1 ib ke meanwhile von had completed hia his victory over on and clear g east prussia of muscovites hut but 6 ough kh had bad been do bated and anti Banie almost annl 1 1100 4 the germans r the e russians were now ai as tar far west M tarnow tn in galicia their were able to mahe make raids into kary arY farther south a great force sud suddenly donlY i SlIt sla and becan beran a doire from the tile elt t against warsaw and ard 11 kan in aro the siberian corpe corps arrived 1 the a nick bick of timo time to save warsaw on orn tho the enemy 1911 tide of russian invasion velon In rn denburg then drow draw on air the north lection w of bla his army in poland to e 6 nw axi A thinking to taha take the burau 9 in flank with the mo Us cap of russians Rua stans were uada aad the fortress of graino grano was 6 act t tacked tarthur west from to Pul tusk the germans retreated to flawd and then tried to flank the tb 1 6 tet t maandi which city they took fiut put the russians AW 11 honked thy hanking party aa as thoy they had done al lods and ana won on an important success february il 22 IS 28 in atar marish ch and april tha russians Ru pressed through th the vestern carpathian and entered hungary just chou their future seemed brightest the germans broke the russian line lias in avest est galicia and ind lot let gli enormous force forces pressing westward bly they took the carpathian armies in the rear aho latter tried to retreat tut put yat numbers were captured which had succumbed to the russian bost egOrs N march 22 fell again into the handa hands of the austro a germane germans great german Ma maneuver euver from Prie myal von on mackensen Macken Jack ensen ren drove cast east through toskla k and grodek and cap captured umberg lemberg the galician Gall cian capital then ho he turned north and marched upon t U a e warsaw Iyan gorod 13 areat est litovsky tri anele angla from the south the gergans now began the grind 11 in tho blatney eel eat maneuver ever evers of ot human warfare from tho the windau river 1 I 1 in n the dal flat tic provinces all the div along the border of 0 east prussia and in glean gigan vicinity of ut ila tic sweep through the dom of the Vla tula mid a in south of the lublin cholm railway they delivered smashing blow and have reached the very gate gates of warlaw |