oops already on that side of the river,
had hurried southward, paralleling the advance of the main army on the
right bank and brushing aside whatever forces of the enemy they met.

In this way they were able to prevent any help from that quarter coming
to the Austrians. Also, when their comrades were delivering a final blow
to the Austrians at the crossing of the San, they were busy on the
opposite side of the Vistula driving back a large Austrian force and
occupying the important place of Sandomierz. They encountered and
overcame near Sandomierz the Second German Landwehr Corps under General
Woyrsch. In the neighborhood of and at the town they reported that they
had taken 3,000 prisoners and 10 guns.

CHAPTER LXVIII

SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS OF SEPTEMBER, 1914

Let us now briefly summarize the Russian strategy during this month of
portentous development, September, 1914, which concluded with the
advance down the left bank of the Vistula and the occupation of
Sandomierz.

It will be recalled that, being more or less prepared, Russia had found
herself invaded by armies operating in three different directions over
an extended front. These armies contained in all about a million men.
The weakness of this advance, the Russians saw, consisted in this: that
the farther two armies of invaders, advancing in divergent lines,
proceed, the farther they become separated. Thus it is more difficult
for them to act in harmony or for either to protect the flanks of the
other.

For this reason the Russians were satisfied to allow the First or
northern Army of the Austrians to advance almost without resistance
until it came within artillery range of its first main objective--that
is Lublin and the railway line to Ivangorod and Warsaw.

Then the Russians delivered a blow with force at the weak Point between
the two invading armies in the vicinity of Tomaszow. The Austrians, to
meet this attack, were obliged to withdraw their reserve forces from the
far left across the rear of the First Army. When these forces proved
inadequate, the organization of a new army began, and this was thrown
into the gap.

If it had been advanced immediately and simultaneously with the other
two armies, the new army might have served its purpose, but the
campaign, it seems, was already too far advanced. The strength of the
Russians had been augmented, and after they had driven the wedge in at
Tomaszow they retained it in place, and were able to wi