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THE WAR BY LAND. 
By HILAIRE BELLOG. 
THE EASTERN THEATRE OF WAR. 
N the Ea,steru theutro of war we are upon the 
eve of events which will ijrofoundly affect the 
future of the whole European straggle. It 
may even be true to say that at the moincut 
of writing we are in the midst of those events, 
tirst chapter of what will soon be a complete 
Btory has apparently been closed in the Northern part 
of the Eastern Hi'ld between the Niomen and the 
I'rontier of Ea.st ]*russia. Meanwhile the much more 
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important chapters that have stDl to be unrolled 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 scries of operations 
in Poland were remarkable from the fact tliat they 
included two quite separate batth^fields. We must 
still use that term "battlefields," for though the 
actions extend OA^cr a front nowadays of anything 
