There has been a great deal of talk during the
week of German threats to Roumania, and of how the Germans will deal her a smashing blow, overrun her, and destroy her unless she immediately demobilizes her Army. We very much doubt whether the Germans are in a position to carry out such threats, though no doubt they often threaten in order to conceal their weakness ; but we are sure that in any case the Roumanian Government will not be: greatly troubled. They know their own strength, if Germany does not. Besides, Geianany's present weakness in the Balkans is writ large for all men to see- • in'the fact that they dare not-attack the Allied-forced at Salonika. Every one knows that if the Germans could possibly manage it - they would drive the Allies into the sea, and dispose of the very formidable Salonika menace. As long as Germany fails to do that and sits -by inactive, while the Allies get better and better supplied with men, guns, and munitions, and have time to make their lines some of the strongest in Europe, no one is going to believe in Germany's power to overrun Roumania.
