Warsaw, Oct. 18.
As I said before, the Battle of P! Warsaw was the very reverse of picturesque. The grey-coated Russian soldiers in the trenches were so similar in colour to the grey-coloured earth that, at first sight, the entire plain seemed to be uninhabited. The main fight took place along the Blonie-Piasetchno line. Blonie lies about fifteen miles west of Warsaw on the Warsaw-
Kalish railway, and Piasetchno only eleven miles from Warsaw, on the narrow-gauge Groitzy railway going through Gura-Kalvaria to Groitzy. The Blonie-Piasetchno front is nineteen miles in length and the Germans made their most energetic attack close to the Vistula in order that they might get possession of the Vistula bridges and capture the whole Russian army.
Meanwhile, however, a great horde of Russian cavalry had turned the left flank of the enemy at Sckhatcheff which lies on the river Bzura about 20 miles west of Blonie. Lovitch, also on the river Bzura, and lying south-west of Sokhatcheff, was also occupied by the Cossacks. Besides this a large Russian force advanced from Novogeorgiovsk, where a great Russian army has long been assembled to protect Warsaw against an invasion from the north. It advanced on the extreme left flank of the Germans, seriously threatening that flank and eventually necessitating the retreat of the Germans. Another great Russian army also appeared in the Gura-Kalvaria region, lying on the Vistula twelve miles south-east of Piasetchno.
Thus the German line from Bloni to Piasetchno was seriously threatened from both flanks while the Russian cavalry, which had reached Lovitch, threatened its rear and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.