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Show Map Showing PrincipalPoints ' Of Russian Drives Into Germany. rewBu. mo nais L f-fr - S ' tcAix mi rtnt - How the Ihtsstnns have iHissIbly opened a wuy for a march on Berlin Ja shown in tho above map. It la. based on official nnd unofficial reports from1 .uPetrosrad.. Of vital Importance was tho , statement In a 1'etrogrnd dispatch ithat commuhtcailon Imd been broken between the German armies In Poland and lri East Prussia and that the' Russians were concentrating large forces . betwoen Iho Wartbo and Vistula tUcts (B). especially at Wlozlawsk. Such forces would be In position to drive a wedge- through the opening made between be-tween the German armies and would bo able to advance over a comparatively open country. To do so It must dispose of the two German nrmles and mask tho fortress of Thorn on tho Vistula. But apparently measures already have been taken with tills end In vlow. Already a large Itussian force has marched march-ed through Mluwn (A) Into East Prussia. Operating with tho forces concentrated concen-trated nt Wlozlawsk It might be strong enough to take caro of Thorn and hold tho I'ast I'rnsslon frontier con if tho German forces now in far East Prussia should retire to this Hue and attack them. Itussian forces that reach ed Pleschcn in Silesia (Cl appear to ho the advance guard of strong forces If so a Itussian army is planted behind the left flank of the Germnn defen she position fimn KmIIkz to Ounstochowu nnd Is In position to force the German in my unity from Berlin and, with the forces operating nt D and E. bend It hack upon the Mttlc Carpathians as the Austrian are bolng bent back on tho main Carpathians |