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 where we found some thousands of infantrymen of the 7th Corps "who had deserted towards the front." We addressed them from the doorstep of a little church, around which there were only orchards and no houses, the cottages of the villages being very scattered. As there were among these Siberians a fairly large percentage of industrial labourers, the socialistic note was particularly accentuated in the manifestations of the assembly.

The same day we left Buczacz and the 7th Army Corps for the General Headquarters of the 11th Army, the right wing of which, the 6th Corps, was encamped at Iezierna.

During the motor run, as on the two previous days, we saw interesting traces of the military operations which, since 1914, had been taking place in this district. Many of the villages that we passed through were in a large measure destroyed by bombardment. Some had been completely abandoned by their inhabitants, and the