16 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 1

While great movements have been taking place in the West,

our troops on the South—i.e., at Salonika—have not been inactive. The Serbians on the left have been heavily engaged with the Bulgarians, and have achieved a position of decided supremacy over the enemy. In this region the help of Italian troops is reported for the first time. But the Italian troops mentioned are perhaps not the Italian troops who came by sea to Salonika. However, this is a matter about which too much questioning is not advisable. It is enough to know that they are helping the Serbians "somewhere in Macedonia." That we are on the eve of great things under General Sarrail's mixed command at Salonika cannot be doubted ; but at present we are not allowed to know very much.