But they did not leave without final protest, and on Sunday, Octo.s ber 18, the day before their retreat, there was a terrible artillery duel. Iw in Prushkoff that night, and I do not think I ever heard ssu ich id to rock from the percu great guns on both sides. landscape was alternately lighted up by vivid flashes, and alternately plunged in gloom blacker than before. Shells continually whistled overhead but it was some consolttion to know that they were Rassian shells. We could not, course, hear the whistle of German shells, only the explosion. fron
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