Having been thwarted in their morning attack, Col. Karl von Stöhr and his Bosnians went forward again in the afternoon, aided by Lt. Col. Arnold Barwick’s 25th Feldjäger Battalion, a mostly-Czech unit from Moravia and the pre-war honor guard at Vienna’s Schonnbrünn Palace. The Cossacks had pulled out of the line during the brief respite from action to be replaced by the newly-arrived 321st and 324th Reserve Infantry Regiments.

This time the Bosnians had better luck, securing Dub and the heights in a series of crazed close assaults. The Russian XIX Corps’ after-action report claims that the assault was aided by troops of the Austrian 13th Landwehr Infantry Division; the Austro-Hungarian II Corps’ assessment denies this. With the heights in their hands the Austrians could potentially interdict the retreat of the Russian XIX and V Corps from the battlefield – except that Archduke Peter Ferdinand of 25th Infantry Division had assigned no artillery to Stöhr’s task force. They could take fairly impotent pot-shots with their rifles, but otherwise do nothing but simply watch the Russian escape.