the southwest and also penetrated the inner
circle.

June 3, 1915, dawned and again the sun smiles over Galicia and sees
the same iron belt of machinelike men still nearer the fortress;
but the haggard defenders, where are they? Gone! Flown! They have
vanished during the night. Austrians and Bavarians march into the
town early in the morning. The only enemies they meet are the dead.

Przemysl has fallen again--fallen before twenty times as powerful
a blow as that which struck it down seventy-two days earlier.

Before proceeding with the progress of Von Mackensen and his mighty
"phalanx," let us briefly trace the progress of Von Linsingen,
whom we left on the road to Stryj and the Dniester, or rather,
attempting to force that road. While the forts of Przemysl were
being smashed in the north, Von Linsingen was pounding and demolishing
the Russian positions between Uliczna and Bolechov. Heavy mortars
and howitzers were at the same time being placed into position
in front of the Russian trenches between Holobutow and Stryj.

On May 31, 1915, they began to roar, and before long the trenches
were completely pulverized--the very trenches that thousands of
Germans and Austrians had died in vain attempts to carry by assault.
The Thirty-eighth Hungarian Honved Division were sent to finish
the work of clearance and take possession of Stryj. The entire
Russian line withdrew to the Dniester, step by step, ever fighting
their favorite rear guard actions, killing and capturing thousands
of their enemies. They retired behind the Dniester, but maintained
their hold on any useful strategical position south of the river,
so far as was possible without imperiling the continuity of their
line.

We must also consider two more Austro-German sectors in order to
bring the combatants stationed there into line with the Germanic
advance--the Uzsok Pass and the Bukowina-_cum_-Eastern Galicia
sectors. In the former the army of Von Szurmay stood beside that
of Von Linsingen opposite the Ninth Russian Army. Von Szurmay led
his men out of the pass and advanced northward on May 12, after
the fall of Sanok had forced the Russians away from their positions
in the vicinity of it. Their line of retreat was threatened by
the Austrian approach to Sambor.

On May 16, 1915, Von Szurmay moved across the upper Stryj near
Turka and passed along secondary roads in the direction of the
oil districts of Schodnica, Drohobycz and Boryslav, arriving on
May 16-1