three o'clock
And always between each of them I have to clean things up '' -- and some more which Trenchard did not understand . The old man then stood at his gate watching them with a gaze serious , sad , reflective . Meanwhile the sanitars had discovered one of our own soldiers : this man , who had been sitting under a hedge and listening to the Austrian cannon with very uncomfortable feelings , told them of the affair . 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 .