19 JULY 1913, Page 1

We can only repeat here the hope we have expressed

else- where, that Roumania will remember how greatly it will be to her own national interests as well as to the interests of the general peace to show magnanimity, and not commit the blunder of Bulgaria—the blunder of pushing a success too far. She has surmounted the " glacier ridge," but she must not forget that there is a precipice on the other side, and any false step may hurl her to where Bulgaria lies with broken limbs. It is said that the Roumanian troops are now only thirty miles from Sofia. The temptation to enter the capital may be very great, but it should at. all costs be avoided. Roumania should remember the maxim of the American business man when he had a rival at his mercy and spared him : " I don't mean this to be the last transaction between

Us.