"Ah, many thousand times untold My friend was each of these, And went from mart or forge or fold, To drown in red, red seas!"
[Illustration: Area of War in Western Europe.]
[Illustration: Area of War in East Prussia and Poland.]
Showing Progress of Campaigns on All Fronts and Collateral Events from Oct. 15, 1914, to and Including Jan. 7, 1915.[9]
[Footnote 9: This war chronology is continued from the issue of Jan. 23, and will be carried on in successive issues.]
Oct. 16--German-Austrian forces assume offensive between the Vistula River and Galicia; fighting near Warsaw and Przemysl; Germans forced back into arid country from vicinity of Ivangorod; Servians and Montenegrins defeat Austrians at Glasinatz.
Oct. 17--Germans advance near Mlawa; their attempts to cross the Vistula repulsed; Austrians claim successes in Galicia; Montenegrins, French, and British bombard Cattaro.
Oct. 18--Austrians repulsed at River San; both sides claim victories in Przemysl district; report that Germans have lost heavily in trying to cross the Vistula at Ivangorod; Servians rout Austrians on the Save and the Drina.
Oct. 19--Fierce fighting near Warsaw and Przemysl; Servians capture Serajevo forts.
Oct. 20--Przemysl forts damaged; Austrians advance in Stryi and Stica Valleys; Servians win at Prekiet.
Oct. 21--Russian General Staff announces German rout in Poland and halting of Austrians at the San; Servians repel Austrian attacks in Bosnia.
Oct. 22--Russians defeat Germans near Warsaw; Russians capture many Austrian soldiers and some guns in Galicia.
Oct. 23--Russians pursue retreating Austrians in Poland; Germans move fortified positions to River Warthe and claim victory west of Augustowo; Austrians reoccupy Czernowitz and announce capture of fortifications around Sambor.
Oct. 24--Russians drive Germans back forty miles from Warsaw; fighting south of Piliza River; Berlin reports repulse of attacks west of Augustowo; fighting in Galicia; both sides claim victory in Bosnia.
Oct. 25--Russians defeat German rear guard trying to cross the Rivers Ravka, Skernevka, and Rylka; German-Austrian forces repulsed near Przemysl; fighting in Bosnia.
Oct. 26--Battle raging between Rawa and the Iijanka River.
Oct. 27--New Russian Army crosses the Vistula north of Ivangorod; Russians drive Germans from Rawa; Austrians claim victory in Galicia.