To the left, caricatures of a fallen King Albert of Belgium, Tsar Nicholas of Russia, President Poincare of France, generic (?) caricatures of an English man and a Japanese soldier, Kings Peter of Serbia, and Nikola of Montenegro engaging in a tug of war, the rope being held on the right by a German (in gray) and an Austro-Hungarian soldier. Between the teams and behind the rope stands the diminutive caped figure of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, all hat, mustache, and chin.

Das Europaische Gleichgewicht 1914



The European Equilibrium, 1914

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Sunday, April 18, 1915

"The general offensive of which the Emperor spoke to me at Baranovici has begun.

In the western Carpathians the Russians are putting forth great efforts. The focus of their attacks at the moment is the Uszok Pass, which is not only at the source of the great rivers of Galicia but commands the entrance to Transylvania.

In the last few days the Austro-Hungarians have left 50,000 prisoners in the hands of their enemy."

Quotation Context

Entry for Sunday, April 18, 1915 from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador in Russia. On March 15, the Ambassador had taken an overnight train from Petrograd to Baronovici, a town on the way to Warsaw and the temporary location of Russian General Headquarters where the staff departments were 'housed in a dozen trains standing fan-wise among the trees.' Tsar Nicholas had told Paléologue of the Russian plan to break through the Austro-Hungarian defenses in the Carpathian Mountains, and then turn west to invade Silesia in Germany. In the month between March 15 and April 18, the Ambassador learned how badly the Russians suffered from a lack of munitions, and wondered how any offensive would be possible.

Source

An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. I by Maurice Paléologue, page 332, publisher: George H. Doran Company, publication date: 1925

Tags

1915-04-18, 1915, April, Russia