The news in regard to the Balkan Powers is exceedingly
difficult to co-ordinate. In the first place it is stated that the Germans have massed some three hundred thousand men in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ready to attack the Serbians. Next, it is asserted that when we and our Allies asked Serbia and Greece to make concessions in Macedonia and in the Kevalla region, in order to secure the co-operation of Bulgaria, because Bulgaria did not consider the-cession of the Enos-Midia line .sufficient, the Serbians would not agree to Bulgaria's terms. We chronicle this statement, which was originally published in the Journal des Debais, with all reserve, and we do not think it would serve any useful purpose to comment upon it until it has been confirmed and the surrounding faets known. We have the greatest possible respect for Serbia and the splendid fighting qualities she has shown, and we should be loath to assume that her statesmen insist upon taking up so purely a non-possumus position. The same criticism applies, of comae, with equal strength to Bulgaria. It would seem as if the proverb— "He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay "- had been left out of the nursery curriculum of the peoples of the Near Eastern States.
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