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 by their comrades to carry on a propaganda for the re-establishment of discipline and for the offensive, had separated to go to the front, where they visited the Soviets of all the units. Their work had certainly a considerable effect on the moral reconstruction of the army.

As soon as the sitting of the Soviet was over we set forth for Buczacz. Shortly after leaving the town of Kamenetz, beautifully situated on a hill overlooking an idyllic valley and surmounted by the ruins of a Turkish fortress, we reached the Austrian frontier. Here we saw first the traces of the combats of the three preceding years, the ruins of the Austrian Customs House reminding us of the first invasion of Galicia by the Russians in 1914.

This invasion seems scarcely, however, to have done much harm to the country. Certainly here, as elsewhere, war has caused cruel devastation: about one hundred kilometres farther inland, where the old line of trenches, showing the extreme point