23 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 2

Marshal von Mackensen led Bulgarian troops into the Dobrudja, because

Germany is much more concerned about the road to the' East than the saving of Transylvania for. Hungary. But this means that Germany has preferred a political to a military motive. So be it. If the Rumanians, undeterred by the side-issue in the Dobrudja, progress. in. Transylvaniae and the Franco-Serb force advances well into Bulgarian Macedonia, we shall soon see what the Bulgarians( and the Hungarians think of German egotism.