October 24, 1914 
LAND AKD WATEB 
THE WAR BY LAND. 
By HILAIRE BELLOG. 
THE MAIN ACTION ON THE VISTULA. 
THE AUics, as we shall see in a later part of 
these notes, have in the last week pushed 
forward a strong wedge into Belgium, 
threatening and, perhaps, rendering lioj^e- 
less a German advance along the sea coast to the Straits 
of Do\'er. The}' hare gained gi-ound to the south of 
Lille and of An-as, and have advanced fm-ther towards 
their goal, the main line of German communications 
into France. A fresh and violent German couuter- 
stUl turns upon the results of that yet greater action 
engaged at this moment upon the Vistula Eiver. If it 
go against the Germans, no temporary success can save 
them ill the west. If it go against the Eussians, nothing 
the iVllies do in the we.><t can prevent the arrival there 
of strong reinforcements for their German enemies. 
It will be important for our judgment of this 
vast action on the Vistula and for following the future 
chances of the war in this field to appreciate the 
elements of the ground over which it is being fought. 
I 
i 
y 
i;MP/i?^ 
KALISCH'f 
NEWGEORCIEVSK 
JVANGOROO 
^)rNEW ALEXANDRIA 
A 
SANDOMIR 
'•-. 
PRZEMYSL 
V^. 
attack near Chaulnes has been thrown back. Every- The Eiver Vistula, rising in the Carpathians, 
thing in tlie west points to some considerable runs in a great bend eastward, then northward, till it 
modification in the near future of the deadlock there, falls into the Baltic near Dantzig. On its very mid- 
But it remains true that the campaign as a whole course stands the modem Polish capital of Warsaw. 
