The retreat from Warsaw. Wounded in a barn outside Warsaw 324 The retreat from Warsaw. German prisoners housed in a barn 326 The retreat from Warsaw. Artillery on the road 328 During the retreat from Warsaw. Note wounded man in foreground 330 The retreat from Warsaw. One of the last regiments to pass through Warsaw 332 Siberians leaving the last trench before Warsaw 334 A batch of German prisoners captured during the retreat from Warsaw 339 Refugees on the road to Brest-Litovsk 340 Roll call during the retreat from Warsaw. All that was left of them 342 Resting during the retreat from Warsaw 344 Wounded returning to Warsaw } } 346 On the banks of the River Dniester } THE FALL OF PRZEMYSL CHAPTER I THE FALL OF PRZEMYSL Dated: LWOW, GALICIA, _April 1, 1915_. I The news of the fall of Przemysl reached Petrograd on the morning of March 23, and the announcement was given out by the War Office at noon. The spring is very late in Russia this year, and so much snow and such intense cold have not been known so late in March for more than a hundred years. On the 23rd it was snowing heavily in Petrograd and a biting wind was sweeping through the streets. Save for an occasional street car and foot passengers the Moika and even the Nevsky Prospekt were at noon almost as empty as at midnight. And then came the announcement that the great fortress in Galicia had fallen. In an hour the news was all over the town and in spite of the inclement weather the streets were thronged with eager Russians, from Prince to Moujik, anxiously asking each other if the news which had been so long promised could really be true. The fall of Przemysl it must be remembered had been reported at least a dozen times in Petrograd before this. There are people in as well as out of Russia, who like to say that the man in the street over here cares nothing for the war and knows less, but on this particular day these people were silent. It was no wonder. If ever a people genuinely rejoiced over good news it was the citizens of all classes of Russia’s capital when it became known that Przemysl was at last in Russian hands. By three in the afternoon, crowds had organized themselves into bands, and with the Russian flag waving in front, and a portrait of the Czar carried before, dozens of bands marched through the streets chanting the deep-throated Russian National anthem; one of the most impressive hymns in the world.