and six machine guns. As the
result of this Austrian advance the adjoining enemy forces to the
eastward along the Wieprz River had been obliged to fall back beyond
Tarnograd, and by the 6th of July Vienna summarized the Austrian
captures in these battles as having grown to forty-one officers,
11,500 men.

The Austrians, however, could make no further headway. On July 5,
1915, they were heavily attacked, being forced back to their
intrenched lines on a ridge of hills to the north of Krasnik. The
Russians now reported that they had taken 15,000 prisoners and a large
number of machine guns. Two thousand bodies were reported by the
Russians to have been found before their front. More prisoners were
taken by the Russians on the 7th and it was only on the afternoon of
July 9 that the Austrians were able to stem the tide. The total loss
of the Austrians in this action was given by their opponents as 15,000
men.

The Austrian explanation of their retirement in front of Krasnik
issued on July 11, 1915, pointed out that the relative subsidence of
activity of the Teutonic allies was due to the fact that the goal set
for the Lemberg campaign had now been attained. This, they explained,
was the taking of the city and the securing of strong defensive
positions to the east and north. The ridge to the northward of Krasnik
was a natural choice for this purpose on the north, while the line of
the Zlota Lipa and Bug rivers served the purpose toward the east (see
Austro-Russian campaign). The Austrian explanation pointed out further
that some of their troops had rushed beyond the positions originally
selected to meet heavy reenforcements brought up by the Russians from
Lublin, and that these had to withdraw to the ridge, where they were
successfully resisting all attacks.

The battle of Krasnik was regarded by the Russians as an effective
victory, for it seemed to have halted the advance on Lublin. The army
of Von Mackensen had now also come to a stop about halfway between
Zamosc and Krasnostav, an artillery duel on July 7, 1915, being the
last activity noted on the front of this army for some time.

Their comparative quiet in the region between the Vistula and the Bug
where the main advance of the Teutonic forces on the south had been
under way with great vigor for several weeks until the check at
Krasnik was not interrupted until July 16, 1915. Day after day the
Teutonic headquarters reported "nothing of importance" in this
quarter