elieve that with me are all
those women and men who respect courage and honor.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.
The Drive at Warsaw
Germany's Story of the Eastern Campaign
Battles of Radymno, Przemysl, Lemberg, the Dniester, Krasnik,
Przasnysz, Ostrolenka
The grand sweep of the victorious German armies through
Galicia and into Poland, on a more tremendous scale than has
hitherto been witnessed in the warfare of history, is
recorded in the semi-official German accounts of the Wolff
Telegraphic Bureau, published by the Frankfurter Zeitung
from June 3 to June 29, and translated below. The official
German reports of the campaign concentrated upon the Polish
capital of Warsaw follow. On July 19 a Petrograd dispatch to
the London Morning Post reported that Emperor William had
telegraphed his sister, the Queen of Greece, to the effect
that he had "paralyzed Russia for at least six months to
come" and was on the eve of "delivering a coup on the
western front that will make all Europe tremble."
STORMING OF RADYMNO
_The semi-official report dispatched by the Wolff Telegraphic Bureau
from Berlin on June 3, 1915, reads as follows:_
From the Great Headquarters we learn the following concerning the
battles at Radymno:
The corps of General von Mackensen, on the evening of the 23d of May,
stood on both sides of the San in a great bow directed toward the
east. On the right wing Bavarian troops stood on the watch facing the
northwest front of the fortress of Przemysl. In touch with the
Bavarian troops German and Austro-Hungarian forces stood south of the
San before the strongly fortified bridgehead of Radymno. Farther north
still other troops linked up with the army.
The bridgehead of Radymno consisted of a threefold line of field
works. There was in the first place the main position well provided
with wire entanglements. This ran along the heights that lie westward
of the village of Ostroro and through the low lands of the San up to
this river. Then there was a well-constructed intermediate position
which was laid through the long straggling village of Ostroro. Finally
there was the so-called bridgehead of Zagrody which was constructed
for the protection of the street and railroad bridges crossing the
river to the east of Radymno. Air-men had photographed all these
positions and had reduced the views by the photogrammeter and
transferred them to the
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