er numbers were to be put to rest together. One such grave was dug
close to the wall of the cemetery and in it were bedded the dead heroes
so that their closed eyes were turned westward--toward home. A chaplain
found wonderful words at the open grave, blessing the rest of those who
had fallen on the field of honor and speaking to their comrades of the
joys of battle and of its sorrows while they said farewell to the dead
with bared heads.

"The guns still roared; then they were silent and then roared on again.
A remarkable tension was in the air. In a discord of feelings the day
drew to its end, and after that the third day of battle, the 2d of
February, dawned with renewed fighting. It was noon. We were sitting at
division headquarters, lunching, when the telephone rang loudly. With a
jump a staff officer was before it. 'General, the Russian lines are
giving way.' Quickly the general issued his orders. Once more the
fighting set in with all the available strength and vigor. The thunder
of the guns was renewed, and so the third day of battle ended with the
storming of the strong Russian positions in Humin and with the
occupation of the entire village by the German troops."

After the storming of Humin the Germans took the heights near Borzimow,
which commanded the road Bolimow-Warsaw. Here, too, the fighting was
very hard. South of Humin, near Wola-Szydlowieca, the Russian lines
again were broken on February 3, 1915, after a combined artillery and
infantry attack, which began early on February 2, 1915, and lasted for
more than twenty-four hours. The next ten days brought continuous
fighting at many points, some of it almost as ferocious as that of which
we have just spoken, but none of it yielding any important results to
either side. With the middle of February a lull set in in this sector of
the front. Of course the fighting did not stop entirely. But the Germans
did not advance farther, and the Russians were unable to break their
lines or to force them back anywhere to any appreciable extent.

Of course all this fighting took place near enough to Warsaw to be heard
there and to fill its inhabitants with terror and fear of a possible
siege or attack on the city proper. Although a great many people had
fled to the interior, thousands of others had flocked to the city,
especially from those outlying districts that had been overrun by the
invaders. Most of these were practically destitute and without means or
opportuni