as
pushed energetically on both sides of the Kamienna. The important
bridgehead on the Vistula, Josefovo, was taken on the 1st of July.

The Russians between the Bug and the Vistula were now offering strong
resistance with large forces on the line Turobin-Krasnik-Josefovo, the
rivers Por and Wyznica forming roughly their defensive front, as
previously pointed out.

In its daily bulletins of July 1, 1915, the German Great Headquarters
made this announcement for the eastern theatre of war (from the Baltic
to the Pilica): "The booty for June is: Two colors, 25,595 prisoners,
including 121 officers, seven cannon, six mine throwers, fifty-two
machine guns, one aeroplane, also a large amount of war material." For
the southeastern theatre of war (from the Pilica to Bukowina) the
headquarters announced: "The total booty for June of the allied troops
fighting under the command of General von Linsingen, Field Marshal von
Mackensen, and General von Worysch is 409 officers, 140,650 men, 80
cannon, 268 machine guns." The Austro-Hungarian General Staff on the
same day reported: "The total booty for June of the troops fighting
under Austro-Hungarian command in the northeast is 521 officers,
194,000 men, 93 cannon, 364 machine guns, 78 ammunition wagons, 100
field railway carriages, etc."

CHAPTER LVII

BATTLE OF KRASNIK--CAPTURE OF PRZASNYSZ

On July 2, 1915, the forces of the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand which had
passed through Krasnik, on the Lublin road, struck serious resistance
from the Russian army of General Loesche which held strong positions
across the highway, just to the north of the town, and was now
evidently determined to stop once for all the Teuton advance toward
the railway at its back, connecting Warsaw with Kiev, through Lublin
and Cholm.

On July 3, 1915, the Austrian report, however, announced that 4,800
prisoners and three machine guns had been taken in the neighborhood of
Krasnik and along the Por stream, and the next day they reported that
they had occupied the heights which run along to the north of the
city, having pierced the enemy's main position on both sides of
Studzianki, and taken more than 1,000 prisoners, three machine guns
and three cannon.

The Russian front was turned to such an extent that they had to fall
back some three miles on the Lublin road. The Austrians on the 5th of
July summed up their enemy's losses as twenty-nine officers, 8,000
men, six cannon, five ammunition wagons,