alize this, I call
upon you to welcome the Russian troops as faithful friends who are
fighting for the realization of your greatest ambitions."

Now, to return to the campaign which had been waged by Von Auffenberg:

While he may be said to have lost this preliminary campaign, his army
was unbeaten. Immediately it fell back into the powerful and carefully
built line of defenses in front of Lemberg, extending over a front of
seventy or eighty miles, from the vicinity of Busk on the north to
Halicz on the Dniester, on the south. An irregular extent of volcanic
hills, some containing extinct craters, extended along the greater part
of its length, and ended on the south in a ridge parallel to the Gnita
Lipa as far as the Dniester. The northern end of this territory was
skirted by the railway running due east of Lemberg. The Austrian left
rested north of the railroad on the River Bug and the lake district
around Krasne. Artificial fortifications improved these natural
defenses. There were many miles of trenches with barbed-wire
entanglements, and at different points massive fortifications of
concrete and steel. The position was difficult to take at any point.

On August 26 and 27, 1914, after the forces of Russky and Brussilov had
been joined, the Russians immediately began their attack along the
entire front. The days that followed were replete with furious charges.
Positions were taken only to be surrendered. Bayonet fighting figured
largely in the clashes. After two days, though the Austrian lines were
still intact, the Russians claimed a victory. Events came about in this
way: After he had forced the crossing of the Zlota Lipa on August 26,
and his right wing had connected with Russky on the north, Brussilov had
extended his left, by forced march through a country almost devoid of
roads, as far to the south as the valley of the Dniester. On August 31,
1914, the main body of this flanking body arrived in front of Halicz. On
the day following, September 1, 1914, a furious attack began. More guns
were brought up and a fierce attack was concentrated near the little
village of Botszonce, where the enemy had taken a position. Afterward,
the condition of the field, which had been literally plowed up with
shell fire and strewn with the debris of cannonading and accouterments,
showed how terrific the conflict had been. The final assault was made by
the Russian Ninth and Fifty-ninth Infantry under cover of a heavy shell
fire. En