October 10, 1914 
LAND AND WATER 
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THE WAR BY LAND. 
By HILAIRE BELLOG. 
THE EASTERN THEATRE OF WAR. 
IN the Eastern theatre of war we arc upon the 
eve of events whicli will profoundly affect the 
future of the whole European stnig^le. It 
may even be true to say that at the moment 
of wi-iting we are in the midst of those events. 
The ih-st chapter of what will soon be a complete 
story has apparently been closed in the Northern part 
of tlio Eastern field between the Niomen and the 
frontier of East Prussia. Meanwhile the much more 
important chapters that have still to be um-oUed upon 
the Upper Vistula, in the Southern department of 
this same Eastern field, have not yet reached any 
conclusion. 
It will be remembered from what was said in 
these columns last week, that these series of operations 
in Poland were remarkable from the fact that they 
included two quite separate battlefields. We must 
still use that term "battlefields," f5r though the 
actions extend over a front nowadays of anything 
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