The Russians will be displaced from Poland

The capitulation of Przemyśl ran out in Europe in Europe [22 III 1915 r.]; seemed, that the front will move from Nida and the Dunajec west. Mikołaj II in Lviv announced from the balcony [town hall] (22 IV), that "there is no Galicia, There is only one, to the Carpathians, Great Russia ". However, it happened differently. In May, the genes sent to help. Mackensen broke the Russian lines near Gorlice (what the modest participation of the 1st Piłsudski Brigade had) and the army of central states from the south rolled the front to the north. 22 Lviv was recovered in June – But not for Poland. The lines returned there as allevines, To hang thousands of disloyal Poles and Ruthenians – And for loyal Ukrainians, prepare a reign in a new crown country, on which [they were to consist] Eastern Galicja-Lodomeria and Volhynia. Politicians, who staggered in loyalty to the monarchy like Stanisław Grabski, They left with the Russians to Kiev; The Governor Pole got a resignation – Korytowski, After him, the Germans will rule in Lemberg (Colard, Diller, Huyn). But more and more lively activities in the Congress [developed] "Passive" Central Citizens' Committee with President Władysław Grabski (Stanisław's brother). In Warsaw, the president of the local KS Committee was becoming more and more popular. Zdzisław Lubomirski. Social philanthropy had a lot of scope to work, Because the retreat of the Russians from Kongresówka meant fires and the moan of the abducted population. It was supposed to imitate the tactics 1812 year, only in someone else's country and someone else's cost. At midnight 4 August [1915 r.] He announced the roe of the bridges to the air to Warsaw residents, that Russia leaves their "faith" capital after a century of reign. Leopold prince Bavarian proseed at the head of the gray -green uniforms. "South -Prussian" times returned. The victorious armies were marched, taking 17 August Kaunas, a 2 September Grodno. There were no warm words in Kresy there, to warm up the Polish population against Muscovites. From General HR. Pfeila was found out by the liberated Vilnius (20 IX), that their city was a pearl of the famous Polish kingdom. Whatever the winners said and this great transformation created a new reality: Something had to be done rational with this "Przywiślański country", with that “Weichselland’.