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line, whether in Flanders or in France to the 
south, or in Northern or Central Poland, or in 
Galicia, has had this feature in common — that it 
has been a sort of alternative striking, first here, 
then, finding he could not break the line, there. 
iTake the line as a whole from, say, Czernowitz 
(C) to a point beyond the Vistula at B, a matter 
altogether of nearly three hundred miles, and you 
.will discover that the enemy's efforts have been 
made successively in one point after another of 
the Russian centre. First he strikes against 
'Jaroslav (1), gets over the river, but does not go 
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more than a mile or two; that is the effort of 
May 14-17. Then he notes the salient of Przemysl 
and tries to cut it off from the north and the south 
(the arrows 2 2); the Russians foiled him by^ 
evacuating the salient in good order in the last 
few days. Next he strikes the other side of the 
marshes from Stryj at the crossing of the 
Dniester at Zurawno (3). Here, again, he gets 
across the river, as, nearly a month ago, he got 
across the San at Jaroslav : but whether he will go 
further we have yet to sec. 
This crossing of the Dniester at Zurawno is 
worth detailed examination. 
The great marshes of the Dniester block all 
attack across the upper course of that stream. If 
below them you try to cross the Dniester from the 
base of Stryj, you are curiously involved in a 
double crossing; for the rail which supplies you, 
and the road also, runs in such a fashion that it 
crosses both streams, the Stryj and the Dniester, 
near where they join. So if you try to fight your' 
way across the line there by Zydaczow you have 
two obstacles to surmount successively. But if you 
attack a little lower down, at Zurawno (not a day's 
march off), you have the advantage of missing 
another small belt of marsh, you have a good road 
from the rail-head, and high ground just bevond 
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