four o'clock
At three o'clock that afternoon our Otriad had been informed that it must retreat `` within half an hour . '' Not only our own Sixty-Fifth Division , but the whole of the Ninth Army was retreating `` within half an hour . '' Moreover the Austrians were advancing `` a verst a minute . '' By four o'clock the whole of our Otriad had disappeared , leaving only this soldier to inform us that we must move on at once to T -- or S -- , twenty or thirty versts distant . `` Retreating ! '' cried Trenchard . `` But we were winning !