ded
the other Russian army in the marshes about Tannenberg, brought into
action great parks of German heavy artillery, and routed and destroyed
the Russian army about September 1, 1914. (Vol. II, 438-441.)

On "Sedantag" Germany was able to celebrate one of the most decisive
of all her many victories, and the Russian peril in East Prussia had
been quickly abolished.

But the East Prussian incident was only a detail, due, it is still
insisted, to the prompt yielding of Russian strategy to Allied appeals
for some action in the east that might relieve the terrible pressure
now being exerted upon the Anglo-French forces in the west. And if the
East Prussian invasion did not, as was asserted at the time, compel
the Germans to send troops from Belgium to East Prussia, it did hold
up new formations and seriously complicate the German problem,
contributing materially to the French victory at the Marne thereby.

The real Russian blow was delivered against Austria. Faithful to her
agreement, Austria had promptly undertaken the invasion of southern
Poland and in the third week of August an Austrian army was
approaching Lublin, while another stood in a wide circle about the
Galician city of Lemberg. (Vol. II, 376-379.)

Ignoring the first army, the Russians sent their main masses westward
on a front extending from the Rumanian boundary to the Kiev-Lemberg
railroad. Before Lemberg the Austrian army was overwhelmed in a
terrible rout, which ended in a wild flight, costing some 300,000
prisoners and almost destroying the Austrian military establishment.
(Vol. II, 385, 386.)

The Austrian army, which had advanced into Poland was left in the air,
and its retreat was transformed into a new disaster. Lemberg fell
about September 1, 1914, and meantime a Serbian victory at the Jedar
had destroyed still another Austrian army and emphasized the weakness
of Hapsburg military power. (Vol. II, 329-335.)

At about the time the German blow at France was failing along the
Marne, the Russian victories were mounting, Russian armies were
sweeping through Galicia and approaching the San. (Vol. II, 398.)
Serbian armies were across the Bosnia frontier, (Vol. II, 323), and
the eastern situation was becoming perilous in the extreme for the
Central Powers, despite the great victory of Tannenberg, which had
cost the Russians an army of 100,000 men. (Vol. II, 438-450.) Thus in
the first six weeks of the war the whole German conception had been
defeate