front; great columns of infantry were pushed forward
to finish the cannons' work--still the Russians hung on, ever bent
on doing all possible damage to the enemy.

During the night of May 30-31, 1915, the enemy succeeded in approaching
within 200 paces, and at some points even in gaining a footing
in the precincts of Fort No.7, around which raged an obstinate
battle that lasted until two in the afternoon of the 31st, when
he was repulsed after suffering enormous losses. The remnants of
the enemy who had entered Fort No.7, numbering 23 officers and
600 men, were taken prisoners.

Since the 20th of May, 1915, the clearing of the road had been
going on; Von Mackensen battering the western forts and the river
line as far as Jaroslav, and Boehm-Ermolli struggling to force
the southern corner to get within range of the Lemberg railway.
On his right, Von Marwitz had become stuck in the marshes of the
Dniester between Droholycz and Komarno. The Bavarians on the north
again let fly their big guns against the forts round Dunkoviczki on
May 31, 1915. At four in the afternoon they ceased fire; the forts
and defenses were crumpled up into a shapeless mass of wreckage. Now
Prussian, Bavarian and Austrian regiments rushed forward to storm
what was left. They still found some Russians there, severely mauled
by the bombardment; but they could no longer present a front. They
retreated behind the ring. The Tenth Austro-Hungarian Army Corps
now made another attempt on Pralkovice and Lipnik. Von Mackensen's
men captured two trenches near Fort No. 11--"they had to pay a heavy
price in blood for every yard of their advance." Heavy batteries are
also spitting fire against Forts Nos. 10 and 12. When the curtain
of night fell over the scene of carnage and destruction, two breaches
had been made in the outer ring of the forts.

June 2, 1915, dawned--a bright, warm summer's day; the sun rose
and smiled as impassively over the Galician mountains, and valleys,
and plains as it had smiled through countless ages before the genius
of man had invented even the division of time. From all sides of the
doomed fortress eager, determined men were advancing; Fort No. 10
was captured at noon by the Twenty-second Bavarian Infantry Regiment;
later in the day the Prussian Grenadier Guards took possession of
Fort No. 12; during the night the besieger's troops marched into
the village of Zuravica, within the outer ring. Austrian troops
had broken through from