ing from Josefow to Annopol were dispersed by
Russian artillery on the left bank of the Vistula.

Detachments of the Fourteenth Austrian Army Corps attempted an attack
near Rawa-Russka, during the night of September 7, but were repulsed.
Near Tomaszow the Russians took an enemy aeroplane.

Aerial battles were not infrequent. Captain Nesteroff, one of the most
daring of Russian aviators, sacrificed his life in a successful attempt
to destroy an Austrian aeroplane. He was returning from the front after
an aerial reconnaissance when he saw an Austrian aeroplane hovering over
the Russian forces with the intention of dropping bombs.

The Russian aviator immediately headed straight for the Austrian machine
at full speed and dashed into it. The force of the impact caused the
collapse of both machines, which plunged to earth, both aviators meeting
instant death.

The fortress of Nikolaieff, twenty miles south of Lemberg, was taken by
the Russians after severe fighting. The fortress was one of the most
modern military strongholds in Austria, being supplied with all the
newest forms of defense and offensive weapons. It had steel cupolas,
masked ranges of earthworks, and guns of modern type and heavy caliber.

The Nikolaieff fortress commanded the passage of the River Dniester. At
the fortress forty guns of the heaviest type and stores of all kinds
were captured. Like Lemberg, the fortresses had been well stocked with
provisions, which fell into the Russians' hands.

After occupying Nikolaieff the Russians undertook, after allowing their
soldiers only two hours of rest, a night march for the purpose of
attacking new positions occupied by the enemy. A Russian battery, placed
on the Vistula River, engaged with success an Austrian steamboat armed
with rapid-fire guns.

About the same time troops were sent by train from the east of Lemberg
to near Chelm, and put in action against Austrian infantry intrenched on
a long line, which included the village of Michailowka. The Russians
entered the village the same night, the Austrians having fallen back to
a half circle of small, steep hills which overlooked the town. Some
houses had been set afire, but the flames had been extinguished by the
villagers themselves.

At three o'clock the following morning the attack on the hills began.
The Austrians occupying them numbered 15,000, of which a large number
were in a deeply wooded gorge. The Russian artillery swept the crest of
the hill