The Campaign in Poland. Autumn, 1914
might be possible to bring them over and use them in the battle on the left bank of the Vistula.
The headquarters of the 9th Army went to Hohensalza.
Those units of the 8th Army intended for Thorn, the ist and 25th R.C., were to be put under the command of the gth Army.
The 20th A.C. and the 3rd Guard Div. which had come from Upper Silesia, were detrained south of Hohensalza, and the I7th Army Corps near Gnesen.
Von Richthofen's Cavalry Corps, with the 6th and gth Cavalry Divisions which had come from the West, were concentrated at the same place.
The nth A.C. was marched on the German side of the frontier, through Ostrowo to the neighbourhood of Wreschen.
General Frommers Cavalry Corps had skirmishes with Russian cavalry between the rivers Prosna and Warta, east of Kalisz, and formed a screen behind which the Posen Corps took up its positions.
The Landsturm, which joined the Breslau Corps later, held the line, a very thin one, to the neighbourhood of Wielun. From there to half-way to the Czestochova-Cracow line was General von Woyrsch, with the 35th Res. Div., Count von Bredow's Landwehr Div., the Landwehr Corps and the Guard R.C., minus the 3rd Guard Div. At this point they joined brands with the Austrian ist Army whose front extended to the Vistula. To the south the rest of the Allied Army was again huddled up between the river and the Carpathians, while stronger forces were posted in the mountains for the protection of Hungary.
From this survey it will be seen that the actual blow against the enemy's flank could be carried out with but five and a half corps. Our forces for dealing with the enemy front from the point at which the Warta flows into German territory southward to the region of Czestochova were quite inadequate. General von Woyrsch had to act in conjunction with the Austrian Army. Whether the Austrians could take the offensive was still uncertain. Opinions on that point were once more very pessimistic*
To the question whether the Austrian ist Army would be
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