Shrapnels are bursting. The major is hiding in a mud hut. My company runs past the village. Janikowski calls out that he is wounded. The wound is in his right elbow. I give him an arm and we go forward. The battalion comes up in half an hour. We go about 1000 yards parallel to the railway embankment and stop to have a rest. Rain. At 4 o'clock we are about 10 kilometres south-east of the village of Chalupka. We bivouac. Janikowski has forgotten to hand over my chest with toilet case, which is very tiresome for me. At 4 we reach the San; my new orderly is called Schütz. * * * * * Shortly after this, at Sieniawa on the east bank of the San, the writer was taken prisoner and this diary was found on him. He was one of 7000 prisoners who were taken with a battery of heavy artillery when Sieniawa was stormed by no more than 6000 Russians.[31] At the same time was captured the interesting postcard which I append. Translation of a postcard, May 25, 1915, from Kralowskie Winogrady (Bohemia). Written in Czech. "MY DEAR FRIEND, "We have got your postcard and we wish you a happy return. We are often thinking of you. Here there is no news, only hunger and shortage of bread. Many of the bakeries are closed. Flour is not to be bought; meat is very dear. Soon there will be a general crisis." [Illustration] INDEX Alexander I, 4 Alexey of Jaroslav, 133 Alexeyev, Mr., 14 Armenians, the, 134 Arndt, 83, 146 Austria, 2, 3, 6, 26, 109, 140, 162, 175, 176, 202, 221 Army of-- airmen of, 164, 168-71, 199, 200, 227, 228, 233 artillery fire of, 154, 158-9, 218, 232, 261 cholera in, 266 clothing of, 87 disaffection of, 84, 85, 174, 201, 212, 265, 268 methods of advance, 88 nationalities of, 84, 87, 174, 192, 201, 266 prisoners and wounded, attitude and spirit of, 19, 55-8, 79-80, 108-9, 121-2, 133, 135, 174, 184, 185, 253-4 question of excesses of, 45-7, 51 treatment of Czechs, 85, 175, 201 use of churches, 151-2 violence of, 29, 30 "_Austrian officer_," diary of, 263-82 Bartieczew, 272 Bavarian troops, atrocities of, 83, 108 Belgium, 4, 7, 45, 108, 176 Bergen, 8, 9 Beskides, the, 186-7 ----, the eastern, 180-1 Beskides, fighting in, 188-90 Biecz, fighting at, 208, 257 "Birds, The," visit to, 147-51, 196 Bismarck, 160 Blaskow, 277 Blonie, 38 Bobr, River, the, 28, 35 Bobrinsky, Count George, 21-3, 25, 75, 95 ----, ---- Vladimir, 23, 25 ----, Countess O., 15, 95 Bohemians, the, 24, 80, 84, 85, 87, 139, 161 Böhmerwald Mountains, the, 161 Borodino, battle of, 164, 201 Bosnia, 2 Bosnians, 87 Braunlich, Major, 268 Bruselov, General, 27, 28 Bug, River, line of, 26, 28, 48, 59 Bukovina, the, 23, 176 Bukowa, 279 Caillaux Case, the, 3 Carpathians, the, 161-3 ----, Austrian advance on, 263-82