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Updated: June 11, 2025
Dmitrieff, therefore, fell rapidly back, until the opening of the Dukla Pass was in front of his line, and the Russian army was once more safe. Meanwhile the renewed seige of Przemysl was going on with great vigor, and attracting the general attention of the Allied world.
The first object of the counteroffensive was to save the Austrians who were holding the frontier south of Lupkow from being enveloped and cut off. But on April 9, 1915, the Russians again moved forward, and recovered part of the Virava Valley. By this day the whole mountain crest from Dukla to Uzsok, a distance of over seventy miles, had been conquered by the Russians.
For a mountain pass is like a river bridge-head; one may often possess it without being able to debouch. The Austrians experienced that difficulty in their winter offensive against the Russian flank in Galicia. They made little progress against Brussilov at the Dukla and Lupkow passes, but farther east they seized most of the mountain routes, and Alexeiev was pressed back in Bukovina.
The Austrians attempted to follow up their successes at the Dukla Pass by attempting to seize the Lupkow Pass, and the Uzzok Pass, still further to the east, but the Russians were tired of retreating. New troops had arrived, and about the 20th of December a new advance was begun.
The young man had confidence in me, and one day, when he saw me in the street at Dukla, he implored me to hide him." "What were you doing in Galicia?" "My master sent me to buy horses, but I could not get any fit for us. I am speaking the truth, I assure you I am." "Do you know why that man deserted?" "Yes, he shot his captain because of a woman." "Did you hear the woman's name?"
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