16 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 18

The news from Salonika has been extremely meagre, con- sidering

that the town is now occupied not only by the Greeks but by a contingent of Bulgarian and also of Servian troops. We presume, however, that this silence is due to negotiations which are going on as to the future of the great port. One of the curiosities of the present war is that its success has been so much more complete than the Allies dared to hope, optimistic as they were. Events have outrun the arrangements made by the four States. The Turks, and in a lesser degree the Austrians, are no doubt hoping that trouble will break out among the Allies. We do not think that it will. One must never forget that it is when people are in difficulties and not when they are prosperous that they are most given to quarrel.