rebruary 27, 191a. 
L A :N D a JN D W a T E R. 
THE WAR BY LAND. 
By HILAIRE BELLOC. 
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THE EAST PRUSSIAN FRONT. 
'liAT has happened upon the East 
Prussian frontier in the course of the 
last fortnight is now perfectly clear, 
and we must seize its details before 
we proceed to its meaning. 
Upon February 7th, just after the great 
effort in front of .Warsaw had failed, with very 
made against the Rawka line in the first week oi 
the month was extremely serious, very expensive, 
and only just failed of success. But whether it 
were a feint or no, it was during its progress that' 
the German troops, already pressing in East 
Prussia, were joined by the new formations, the 
importance of which will be discussed in a 
moment, and that the clearing of the invaded 
province was begun. The belt of East Prussia 
hea^y losses to the enemy, the concentration of 
German troops in East Prussia was complete and 
the advance against the Russian invaders taken. 
Some have conjectured that the great attack 
upon .Warsav/ from February 2nd to February 
8th was no more than a diversion, with the object 
of withdrawing the Russian attention from the 
blow which was about to fall in the North. This 
conception is a little far-fetched. The effort 
which our Allies had occupied and complete!/ 
denuded of supplies, as against their necessary; 
retreat (for, as has been repeatedly pointed out 
in these columns, the Russian equipped numbers 
are not j'et sufficient for an outer advance upon 
either wing) had reached the river, the line A B 
in the above map. The Russian forces in this 
district amounted to no more than four army 
corps — say, after the waste of war, 130,000 to 
