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Show RUSSIANS FACE TWO BIGARMIES By fill, I, AIRE BHJLLOC. Foremost Military Writer in Europe. London, March 7 The interest of the war still renters in the eastern front, where two great efforts are being be-ing made by the Germans against two wings of the 700-mJle-long Russian line. The first of these Is being made bv a force oi certainl) more than 500,-ooo. 500,-ooo. perhaps 750,000, Germans proceeding pro-ceeding southward and eastward from East. Prussia against a certain defen sive line which protects the network of railways centering in Warsaw With the importance of this line I will deal in a moment. The second effort is being made in the extreme south bevond that portion por-tion of the Carpathians which lies northward and westward of the Rumanian Ru-manian northern border and in the country known as Rukowlna. The first of these efforts in the principal one, because the possession of Warsaw is the object of the A.US-tro-Cierma.n army In the east Whoever Who-ever holds the bridges of Warsaw, as often pointed out In these article, can 'prevent the Russian army from operating op-erating against the frontiers of the ! German empire Once in possession of Warsaw the I Germans would be able to reel secure upon their eastern front, and could bring back great masses of men to i break the deadlock, as it is called in I the west. Now there are two ways of getting hold of Warsaw. One is attacking directly from the direction of Ger many that Is to the west, the other is getting around the city from thei north and coming upon the sheaf of railways which concentrate upon the Polish capital Once the railways are cut Warsaw-would Warsaw-would be isolated from the bases within Russian territory upon whioh It relleB and would sooner or later, probably later, fall into the hands of the forces which cut these milwava. Frorvtal Attack Failed. The attack from in front was prosecuted prose-cuted with the utmost vigor from the middle of November onward. It failed. The last effort was made on February 2 to 8, and while it did not succeed It served to mask a new movement of capital moment which was going on In the north. A small Russian arm, as this war goes, wae operating Independently of the rest of the Russian forces on the fringes of East Prussia south of and in line with the town of Tilsit. it consisted of only four corps. Against these the Germans brougnt up with eki'l and celerity at least ten corps. They drove the luvaders out with very bee?) losses, one Russian arms corps, that bearing the title of the Twentieth, in particular, being severely se-verely handled. The corps lost perhaps two-thirds of Us men though only a third of Its guns. The other third made a good I retreai wlih more than thr losses normal to BUCfa a retirement Action Not Decisive. Rut this Initial German sucrs- h;nl nothing decisive about It The real issue of the flay, at distances varying from twentj 1 1 1 seven t) miles from the Bast Prussian frontier, lies In one of the strong defensive lines of modern Europe, specially designated to protect the railways tiiat concentrate concen-trate on Warsaw Thifl defensive line uses the line of the Nlemen from Kovnn to Grodno and continues along the line of the River Narew to the Vistula, or rather along the Bobr, a tributary of the arew-. and at last along the Bug, Into whlcb the Narew flows juat above the Junction ot the former with the Vistula. This line Is well over 200 miles long and Is defended by no less than eight fortresses The extreme ones are Kovno and Novo GeorgievMi. By tho center of the line Is the powerful fortress or Ossow iec rift |