The fortress of Przemysl wa vested on September 29, but the siege has not been continuous in the six months that have elapsed. Tt will be remembered that Galicia was invaded by Gen. Russky's army of the south on August 14, and in September it captured the fortress of Lemberg, and then, advancing westward, invested Przemysl. The fortress of Przemysl stubbornly held out and the tide of war swept past it, on the one hand to the foot of the Carpathians and on the other to the Upper Vistula, On Eeptember 21 Jaroslav, a very important railway contre was captured and the Russians, after containing Przemysl, moved towards Cracow, but their progress was stayed by a counter offensive on the part of the Austrian army, which was supported by German corps drawn from the western theatre of war.
By October 23 the Russians had forced back the Austro-German army from the San and th Vistula, although the threat to their line of communications had obliged them to raise the sieg> of Przemysl. On November 6, Jaroslay was re-occupied by the Russians, and by November 25 Russian advance guards had forced some of the Carpathian passes and entered Hungary. The investment of Przemysl, in the meantime, had been resumed by Gen. Ratko Dimitrict, the Bulgarian general, who took service with Russia on the outbreak of the war.
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