announcement stated that
"a German division, coming to the aid of the Austrians, was attacked on
the left bank of the Vistula." Presumably, the Russian troops there had
come from Ivangorod.

After the Austrian First Army began to retire, it was followed by the
Russian forces along its line. And this line, at first, was
approximately eighty miles. As it retired, the left wing being hemmed in
by the River Vistula, and the right feeling steady pressure from Russian
forces on the right, where direct retreat was prevented by the swampy
nature of the country, the front was contracted until it was less than
forty miles.

This had been accomplished by the time the army reached the San, where
it was necessary to effect a crossing by four or five bridges at
different points. Dankl was highly praised for the manner in which he
handled his army during this retreat, and saved it from destruction. In
Russia, it had been assumed that the retreat would degenerate into a
panic and the fate of the First Army was regarded there as practically
sealed. Russian strategists themselves speak in high terms of the way
Dankl handled his army in this crisis.

The Austrian advance on this front had its high mark on a line drawn
from Opolie on the Vistula, through Krasnostaw to Grabiowiec, whence the
line curved southward toward Tyszowce. And it was in the region of the
latter place that the Austrians claimed a big success, though this was
denied by Petrograd.

After the Russian advance on this front from Lublin and Kholm, as we
have seen, had begun with the "disorganization" of the Austrian center
at Krasnostaw, the next attempt was to strike at the Austrian left,
starting at Opolie and developing thence along the entire line as far as
Turobin.

It was on this wing of the Russian army that the chief strength had been
assembled, the other parts of the line being left comparatively weak.
Reasoning that even if the Austrians were able to break through the
front, where it was weaker, it would only make more certain their being
surrounded finally, all new troops that arrived were shifted over to the
right wing.

On September 5 and 6, 1914, the Russians attacked the Austrian army at
Tomaszow, situated northeast of Krubessiow and southeast of Rawa-Russka.
The Austrian army retired.

Near Frempol, the Russian cavalry rushed big convoys of the enemy in the
direction of Lublin. Troops and convoys which were moving in the
direction of the road lead