mass of wreckage. Now Prussian, Bavarian
and Austrian regiments rushed forward to storm what was left. They
still found some Russians there, severely mauled by the bombardment;
but they could no longer present a front. They retreated behind the
ring. The Tenth Austro-Hungarian Army Corps now made another attempt
on Pralkovice and Lipnik. Von Mackensen's men captured two trenches
near Fort No. 11--"they had to pay a heavy price in blood for every
yard of their advance." Heavy batteries are also spitting fire against
Forts Nos. 10 and 12. When the curtain of night fell over the scene of
carnage and destruction, two breaches had been made in the outer ring
of the forts.

June 2, 1915, dawned--a bright, warm summer's day; the sun rose and
smiled as impassively over the Galician mountains, and valleys, and
plains as it had smiled through countless ages before the genius of
man had invented even the division of time. From all sides of the
doomed fortress eager, determined men were advancing; Fort No. 10 was
captured at noon by the Twenty-second Bavarian Infantry Regiment;
later in the day the Prussian Grenadier Guards took possession of Fort
No. 12; during the night the besieger's troops marched into the
village of Zuravica, within the outer ring. Austrian troops had broken
through from 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 th