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 sively the three armies who held the front in Galicia, and which would be called upon to play the principal part in the coming offensive: the 7th Army in the centre, the 11th on the right, and the 8th on the left.

There were twenty hours' railroad journey from the Stavka to Kamenetz Podolski, where the headquarters of the armies of the south-west were installed. General Goutor, who had just succeeded Broussiloff, received us. He had already made the necessary arrangements for the rest of our journey, which was to be made by motor-car. Indeed, after leaving the Austrian frontier near Kamenetz there are only narrow-gauge railways, on which our wide Russian railway carriage could not travel. We were to return to it only at Jassy. Between Kamenetz and Jassy we were to motor about 1,500 kilometres, half of them only on roads which are worthy of the name. The rest was done—and how? on sandy tracks made throughout the country simply by the passage of mounted troops, or on roads that the Creator—for human intervention in their construction was never clearly demonstrated