Meanwhile the attitude of Greece and Roumania is a question
of the first importance. The Balkan correspondent of the Times, in a message to Friday week's paper, says that Roumanians believe it to be impossible now to save the Serbian Army from being driven back. The combined numbers of the Austro-German and Bulgarian invaders are estimated at six hundred thousand. The correspon- dent remarks, however, that if [tussle could send a force of two hundred thousand men, either disembarking them on the Black Sea coast or despatching them by way of iteni on the Bessarabian frontier, while Britain and France landed an army of the same size on the Aegean coast, the result would probably be the adhesion of Roumania and Greece to the cause of the Allies, and the consequent failure of the German advance towards Constantinople. Roumania could fall on the back of the Bulgarians with two hundred thousand men, and simultaneously attack the German front with four hundred thousand men. Roumania feels perfectly secure in the Carpathian passes.
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