anoff.
Facing Dmitrieff on the Dunajec front stood now the Fourth
Austro-Hungarian Army under the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, about five
army corps, including a German cavalry division under General von
Besser; then the Ninth and Fourteenth Austrian Army Corps; to their
right, several Tyrolese regiments; the Sixth Austro-Hungarian Army
Corps of General Arz von Straussenburg, with the Prussian Guards on
his left and Bavarian troops under Von Emmich on his right; the
Eleventh German Army Corps under Von Mackensen; the Third
Austro-Hungarian Army under General Boroyevitch von Bojna; the Tenth
Army Corps under General Martiny. This formidable combination now
confronted the Dunajec-Biala positions, which Dmitrieff had held
without exertion for four months. Only a mile or two away he still
inspected his trenches and conducted his minor operations, totally
unconscious of the brewing storm specially directed against him. The
Laborza district was held by the Archduke Joseph with the Seventh Army
Corps; on his left stood a German corps under Von Marwitz, and on his
right the Tenth Army Corps, north of Bartfeld, with some additional
forces in between. Around the Lupkow and Uzsok passes the Second
Austro-Hungarian Army under Boehm-Ermolli was stationed where it had
been since February, 1915. Next, on the right, the Austro-Hungarian
army corps under Von Goglia; in the Uzsok lay an army under Von
Szurmay, nearly all Magyars, of whom the chief commander was Von
Linsingen. Farther eastward stood a Prussian corps, embodying a
division of Prussian Guards and other regiments commanded by General
Bothmer, a Bavarian, who had been reenforced with a Hungarian division
under Bartheldy; then followed the corps of Generals Hofmann and
Fleischman, composed of all Austrian nationalities, intrenched in the
mountain valleys. More German troops held the next sector, and,
finally, came Von Pflanzer-Baltin's army groups in the Bukowina and
Eastern Galicia. Against this huge iron ring of at least twenty-four
Germanic corps (about 2,000,000 men) and a great store of reserves,
the Russians could not muster more than about fourteen of their own
corps. As has already been pointed out, the greatest disparity of
strength existed on the Dunajec line, where Dmitrieff stood opposed to
about half of the enemy's entire force with only five corps of Russian
troops. The Austro-German forces, moreover, were infinitely better
equipped with munitions and heavy artiller