18 DECEMBER 1915, Page 2

The situation is further complicated by the fact that the

Germans and Austrians want to be off to meet the Russian threat in the North, and that the Bulgarians do not like the idea rof being left alone to face the Allies at Salonika, especially as the Russian threat involves a direct attack on Bulgarian territory. .tray or two will probably show how the situation will develop. In is quite possible that it may end in Greek intervention on the side of the Allies—a very strange result if it does occur. At the same time, the Greek Government, though not the Greek people, are still paissionately anxious to preserve complete neutrality, and they will no doubt make a desperate struggle for this, no matter what hog of paradoxes and sophistriea they will lave to wade through to attain it.