On Sunday the 18th the Russians had obtained a numerical superiority of four to one and a great superiority in artillery. No fewer than twenty heavy howitzers were on this day brought from the Brest-Litovsk forts, and their arrival was decisive, for on Monday, the 19th, the Germans had given up the struggle for Blonie which they had been carrying on with fiendish energy for three days. But though the German artillery ceased, a constant but not a heavy rifle fire was kept up from Prushkov to Powsinin on the Vistula. Under cover of this rearguard fire, Von Morgen effected a retreat which, seriously speaking, was even more brilliant than his advance. He pounded away like a malignant spirit, leaving strong smell of gunpowder behind him but no cannon, no rifles, no cartridges, and only a few stragglers some of whom suffered from wounds, others from "cold feet"—as they say in America.
The Russian officers—always generous opponents—are filled with admiration at the brilliancy of this achievement. On Tuesday, the '%th, the Russians sent forward their cavalry to reconnoitre but, after going twenty miles, the cavalry returned in despair, having entirely failed to locate the enemy. They were found next day, the 21st, but there is now no hope of the Russians being able to cut off their retreat. is hope was at one time very strong in the Grand Ducal staff, and came pretty near, indeed, to realization. For while Yon Morgen was vainly battering at the defences of Warsaw, the Rus-sins bad collected a huge army
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