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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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y the part of spies andhangmen of their fellow-countrymen. The districts of Halitch, Bzhezhany andPluhoff were now the chief objectives of theRussian attacks. They were the three bastionsof the enemy centre in East Galicia, on a linewhich had already been laid bare of its fore-works and offered the last defensible connectedpositions in front of Lvoff. Of these threebastions the most important was Bzhezhany.Whilst round Halitch and Pluhoff the Germansmight yet have maintained an unbroken front,even if the wings had been bent back stillfarther, a piercing of the line of the Zlota Liparound Bzhezhany would have resulted for themin an immediate loss not only of the district ofPluhoff. but also of Zlochoff and Krasne. Thena concentric movement by General SakhaioffsArmy from the direction of Brody would havebecome possible, and the road would have beenopened for a direct blow from the east againstLvoff. The battle in the region of Bzhezhany beganon September I, round the village of Shybalin
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A MHI.D WAK CCJUNCIL. 170 THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAIL on the Kozova-BzliezJiany road, and extendedon tliH following day to the south, beyondPotutory down to the hill called Dzikie Lany(near tliis hill was the junction of the Austrianand the Turkisli linea). The Lysonia range inthe corner between the Zlota Lipa and theTseniovka, which dominates tliat district, wanone of the main objectives of the Russian artil-lery. The Russian batteries are skilfullyplaced and masked, wrote the military corre-spondent of the Hungarian Pester Lloyd from theenemy headquarters near Bzhezhany, andeven our flying men find it diflicult to discoverthem. Very often the Russian batteries suc-ceed in directing the most destructive form ofnre against our positions, namely cross-fire,and sometimes they even outflank us. . . .Since the beginning of the autumn fightingmuch heavy artillery—-of 15 and 18 cm. calibre—is employed by the Russians. In the last fewdays (beginning of October) a hugi; Russian gun,pres

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