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While the Russians were developing their attack against Kovel the balance of the eastern front was comparatively inactive with the exception of the Galician and Bukowinian sectors. The fighting which occurred there had as its object the capture of Lemberg and developed soon into a struggle of the first magnitude. It will be described in detail in the following chapter.
At the same time at which the Russians advanced against Kovel and Lemberg the Austro-German forces renewed with increased vigor their activities in the Carpathian Mountains, undoubtedly with the object to reduce, if possible, the Russian pressure on their Bukowinian and Galician positions. To a certain extent the Central Powers met with success.
It brought them once more into possession of the Bukowinian capital, Czernowitz. Czernowitz is one of the towns whose people have suffered most severely from the fluctuating tide of war. Its cosmopolitan population, the greater part of whom are Germans, have seen it change hands no less than five times in twenty-one months.
The latter is a tributary of the Dniester, while the Bukowinian Sereth is a tributary of the Danube, which latter it joins near the city of Galatz, in Rumania, after flowing in a southeasterly direction through this country for almost two hundred miles. The fall of Radautz was an important success for various reasons.
"We are Russian, he is Bukowinian; he hires men to the railroad, we hire ourselves; he has a store, we buy in the Canadian stores, therefore, he hates us." The stranger nodded his head, comprehending the situation. "And so you are not invited to the wedding." "No, we are not invited to the wedding," said Joseph in a tone of regret. "And they are your friends who are being married?" "Yes."
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