My War Memories, 1914-1918
they increased their resources for carrying on the war, and this object was the deciding factor in determining their attitude towards Greece.
The Royalist troops were withdrawn from Thessaly in November. Between Fiorina and Valona a continuous line was gradually being established.
On the front of the Commander-in-Chief in the East the Russians made one more powerful but abortive attack, west of Lutsk, on the Pustomity-Saturtzy front, about the middle of October. Then their attacks here gradually died down. Along the Narajovka they continued into November. Russia was at last exhausted. We were still strong enough to make some local attacks that required little preparation, the most important of which took place on the front of Woyrsch's Army Group on November gth. It was quite on Western lines and was completely successful. We, too, had now come to the end of our strength.
In connection with the battles in Rumania the Russians continued their attacks in the Carpathians from October well into December.
At the same time an extension of the Russian Front to the south was perceptible. Russians and Rumanians attacked on the eastern frontier of Transylvania and Rumania. Our advance in Wallachia provoked even fiercer battles, and brought upon us strong Russian massed attacks, which again produced local crises, and tried our nerves highly. The Austrian ist Army, in the Transylvanian frontier mountain?, was particularly heavily attacked, until Bavarian troops restored the position here too.
At the end of October and the beginning of November, whilst the fighting on all fronts was still at its zenith and the end was not yet in sight, our second concentration against Rumania was in full swing. It was no simple task. It took a long time, during which we had ample opportunity to reflect over the
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