2i8 The Great War corps, might stop the Russians at Tarnow. It was more lilcely that they would stand about Cracow, since the Germans might be needed in Silesia pres- ently. But it was now apparent that Austria alone could not hold the Russian masses, could not keep the field against them. What Lemberg began Jaroslav had continued with a vengeance. Looked at with eyes most favorable to the Germans, it was becoming difficult to see how they could hope to postpone for many weeks more the arrival of the main Russian Army on their boundaries. It might come sooner too, if the Italian, the Rumanian, the Bulgarian saw in Jaroslav the promise of complete Russian triumph with individual profit to themselves if they assisted. Meanwhile, the effect of the Russian victory at Jaroslav on the western operations was watched with interest. Once more, as before the invasion of Paris, as just preceding the Battle of the Marne, when Germany was engaged in a crucial and per- haps decisive operation, Austrian disaster claimed her attention. Was it small wonder that already Germans were beginning to whisper that the Aus- trian Alliance was, in fact, a millstone about their necks, a burden steadily growing to a positive peril? So Napoleon in his later days had won great vic- tories, only to see their fruits lost by the conse- quences of the disasters which had overtaken his marshals.