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divisions with Bothmcr in the centre (if there arc still two) 
were present before the Russian offensive began. On- 
ward eastward or to the right of the great main road 
between Lutsk and Lemberg the troops were Austrian. 
The centre of the whole battle, the place from which it 
might well take its name, was Ugrynow, about seventeen 
miles south-west of Lutsk, and it was there, 1 fancy, that 
the command was stationed during the action. 
Apparently in the night of Sunday last the determina- 
tion was arrived at to fall back under the Russian pres- 
sure and after the losses sustained from this, which I may 
call the Ugrynow line, to a new line approximately that of 
B-B-B upon Map III. What was the advantage to the 
enemy of such a move and how does it spare him men ? 
It puts a marshy valley floor, that of the Volhynian 
Lipa and its upper tributaries, between the defeated force 
and the Russians : that is why the retirement was under- 
taken. Further, I am inclined to believe, though there 
is yet no mention of it, that some retirement has taken 
place on to the right of these lines, so that the extension 
of actual mileage held by the retirement may not be so 
serious as would appear from the map. For it is obvious 
that the line B-B-B is longer on the map than the hne 
A-A-A. 
The River Lipa is a small tributary of the Styr, very 
sluggish and muddy and flanked upon both sides by bog, 
whicli extends almost along its entire course. The 
upper part of the stream with its branching sources is 
particularly sodden with great belts of marshy meadow 
upon either side. You may say, there 'ore, that from 
about the point X to about the point Y Linsingcn's 
Austro-Germans and the purely German divisions rein- 
forcing him upon his left, now stand everywhere behind 
a natural obstacle which gives them breathing time. 
It gives them no more ; for the obstacle of marsh and 
strain is nowhere more than a mile or two wide, and when 
the Russian heavy guns are moved up and their munition- 
ment (which is a slower matter) advanced, the positions 
beyond the Lipa will be as vulnerable as those in the open 
ground by Ugrynow were this week. But meanwhile 
there is opportunity for repose and possibly for some 
reinforcement. 
The positions to the south of the Lipa consist in low 
hills from loo to I20 feet above the marshy banks of the 
river. An exactly similar formation runs parallel to the 
river upon the north. So we know pretty clearly what 
is to follow. The Russian battery positions will be estab- 
lished behind the northern hills ; the new Austrian 
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