11 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 1

Unless we are greatly mistaken, the "push at any price"

has already ended in the Dobrudja in a tactical fiasco, and is going so to end in the Carpathians. If we are right, we wonder whether our pessimists will still have the effrontery to say that it would be better for us if Rumania had never come into the war. In our opinion, it will turn out in the end that Rumania has caused the German military authorities to do something very like ham-stringing their forces.