August 17, 1916 
LAND & WATER 
SAKHAROFF 
OARNOPOL 
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line is none the less by far the best defensive line on 
account of its broad and marshy character between the 
frontier and Lemberg. Further, up to the Gnila-Lipa 
there are excellent opportunities for conducting the 
retreat, so long as the Halicz bridge is held and the 
railway junction immediately above it, so long there is 
a relieving railway line, marked i — i on Map I., to flelp 
the retirement along the parallel railway lines and to 
use the southernmost of the railways which converge on 
Lemberg. And even were the bridge of Halicz and the 
junction lost there still remain three railway lines by which 
to retire. The main one to the north ; tte one through 
Brzezan and the one through Rohatyn, and there are. at 
the same time, the two main roads, the northern one along 
the main line, the southern one to Brzeza?i which, after 
the town, splits into two, giving a corresp'Onding relief, 
the one going northward marked 2 — 2 ivoon Map 1. ; 
the one going southward to Rohatyn, 
