ousands of Germans and
Austrians had died in in vain attempts to carry by assault. The
Thirty-eighth Hungarian Honved Division were sent to finish the work
of clearance and take possession of Stryj. The entire Russian line
withdrew to the Dniester, step by step, ever fighting their favorite
rear guard actions, killing and capturing thousands of their enemies.
They retired behind the Dniester, but maintained their hold on any
useful strategical position south of the river, so far as was possible
without imperiling the continuity of their line.

We must also consider two more Austro-German sectors in order to bring
the combatants stationed there into line with the Germanic
advance--the Uzsok Pass and the Bukowina-_cum_-Eastern Galicia
sectors. In the former the army of Von Szurmay stood beside that of
Von Linsingen opposite the Ninth Russian Army. Von Szurmay led his
men out of the pass and advanced northward on May 12, after the fall
of Sanok had forced the Russians away from their positions in the
vicinity of it. Their line of retreat was threatened by the Austrian
approach to Sambor.

On May 16, 1915, Von Szurmay moved across the upper Stryj near Turka
and passed along secondary roads in the direction of the oil districts
of Schodnica, Drohobycz and Boryslav, arriving on May 16-17, 1915. Von
Linsingen's troops had started their advance on the same day as those
of Von Szurmay, when the Russians round Koziowa had to retire for the
purpose of keeping in touch with their line: the same pressure that
Sambor exerted on the Uzsok. Here again the Russians adopted
rear-guard tactics and considerable fighting occurred during their
retreat to Stryj and Bolechow, both of which were eventually captured
by Von Linsingen.

In Eastern Galicia and the Bukowina matters had come almost to a
standstill between Lechitsky and Von Pflanzer-Baltin about the middle
of May, 1915. When the former had cut the latter's connection with the
main line, the brigade of General von Blum and other adjoining German
troops on the extreme right of Von Linsingen tried hard to relieve the
pressure of Lechitsky on the Austrian forces. Not till after the fall
of Przemysl was the connection restored, when the Russians had to fall
back from Kalusz and Nadvorna; on June 9 they evacuated Obertzn,
Horodenka, Kocman and Sniatyn. Lechitsky was also compelled to
withdraw from the Bukowina between Zaleszczyki, Onut, and Czernowitz,
where the Austrians were moving al