The Balkan news still remains, and is bound to remain
for some time, very unpleasant reading for the Allies. The Serbian Army is still being pressed by the Austrians, Germans, and Bulgarians over the border into the Albanian and Montenegrin mountains. Happily, however, there seems reason to believe that the food supplies which have been sent to Scutari and other Adriatic ports are beginning to reach the Serbians, and that the fear of their dying of hunger in the mountains need not now be entertained. In fact, our worst anxieties for the Serbian Army are over. It has made good its retreat. Even though it has lost a great deal in the way of guns and material, it is still in being, and we shall not be surprised if after a certain amount of rest and remaking it is able to put two hundred thousand men into the field.
