If our troops are hard pressed or unable to carry
out any new objective upon which they may decide—the discussion of that is, of course, forbidden ground—they can always retire for the time to "the beaked ships," or rather to a series of fortified positions based upon the sea. The Chersonese and the plain in and around Salonika, bounded by its fringe of mountains, could pro- vide if necessary something in the nature of the lines of Torres Vodras—a place where the Allies could make themselves snug for the worst part of the winter, and whence they could issue to attack their foes. The Chersonese is almost as good as an island, and as long as we keep command of the sea it is very difficult to see how our enemies could reach us. In all probability, however, it will not be necessary to adopt this par- ticular piece of strategy. We merely mention it by way of illustration and to show the uneasy section of our readers that the resources of the military art are by no means exhausted because we were unhappily too late to save Serbia from being overrun.
