Postcard map of East Prussia and Polish Russia with a message and postmark, Vienna, August 20, 1915. From a series that asks, 'Do you know the high times?'

Kennen Sie schon 'Die grosse Zeit'

die neue vom Verlag Ullstein & Co. herausgegebene illustrierte Kriegsgeschichte? Wenn nicht, lassen Sie sich die bereits erschienenen Hefte von Ihren Buchhändler vorlegen. Das Werk gibt in zeitlicher Reihenfolge eine packende reich illustrierte Darstellung der Kriegsereignisse; jedes Heft ist erzeln erhältlich und kostet 30 Pfennig.



Do you know 'The big time'

new from publisher Ullstein & Co., a published illustrated history of the war? If not, you can acquire the already published issues from your bookseller. In chronological order, the book gives a gripping and richly illustrated presentation of the war; each issue is available and costs 30 cents.



Reverse:

B.Z. Kriegskarte

Verlag der B.Z. am Mittag, Berlin



B.Z. War Card

Publisher of B.Z. at Noon, Berlin



Message and postmark, Vienna, August 20, 1915

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Monday, July 5, 1915

"Monday, July 5, 1915.

Between the Bug and the Vistula the Austro-Germans are continuing their march on Lublin.

The Russian army is retiring, by swift and successive stages, on positions it has to abandon practically at once, owing to lack of arms and ammunition."

Quotation Context

Entry for July 5, 1915 from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia. The great retreat of the Russian army in the face of the combined German and Austro-Hungarian Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive continued on a broadening front. The retreat was not a rout, as the Russians regularly halted, entrenched (if poorly), and briefly held their ground before continuing the retreat. Lublin, Poland is southeast of Warsaw, which the Russians continued to hold.

Source

An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. II by Maurice Paléologue, page 25, publisher: George H. Doran Company

Tags

1915-07-05, 1915, July, Russian Army, Poland