English Translation

47 84 Only a few words later about the fates of General Gajda during the war: General Gajda kan to Russia from Montenegro. There he fought as a volunteer against the pasterr.ung. Army, which he had voluntarily left to fight for the independence of his people. When Mon tenegro fell, he went over England and Scandinavia to Russia and was assigned as a Serbian volunteer to the Serbian volunteer division. - Later, he joined the Czech Brigade with other Czech volunteers, who later became so famous for their actions at Zborov. Since Gajda held the rank of captain of the staff at that time, which was a relatively high rank for the other volunteers of the Czech formation, he was transferred to Zborov by the regiment Komnando. - Actually better said - it was not overtaken, but he was rebuked for it on his own: before the battle at Zborov, the Russian regiment commander - a colonel - was very anxious to strengthen his nerves by unusual centenaries of "Voäka" after the well-known Russian way, and so it happened when the decisive lot came, that still no order was given to attack the Austrian positions. At this moment, when the team became almost headless by the nervous tension, and in the moment of general uncertainty, Gayda simply stood at the head of the regiment and gave the order to attack, without regard to the Russian colonel, who rested after the so great "strengthening". The sight laugh at Zborov became a great victory, the Austrian front was broken through, and only the absolute demoralization of the Russian neighboring formations was the reason that the whole front was not pre-empted after this breakthrough of the finely dipped positions. And a few days later, Gajdaß's leadership skills became even more visible: the Czech volunteer brigades penetrated deep into the back of the Austrian front; but the counter- and German offensive of the Eastern Hungarian army swept away the demoralized parts of the Russian team at both the wings of the Czech formations. And so suddenly the regiment, whose leader was General Gajda, was enclosed from all sides. In this critical situation falzieGajda, after some considerations, carried out an as brave, as well as unusual and unexpected thing, which led his whole regiment from encirclement of this iron embrace to the rest of the formations - because he was not anxious to get through to his formations, because he knew that the enemy with a large number of machine guns in his back was lurking; that he then with his entire regiment either to certain death,