25 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 2

Unless we are greatly mistaken, she will not try to

break through in the West, for she knows that there she is held so firmly that to take the offensive would mean a loss in soldiers which she could ill spare. That being so, she will have to choose between attacking Italy or Serbia. In all probability she will choose a campaign in the Near East. Indeed, her Turkish allies are likely to make her doing so a sine qua non. If, however, the conquest of Serbia is attempted by a mixed German and Austrian force, we do not believe that there need be any cause for alarm. The Serbian Army is in thoroughly good condition, and has been reinforced by British artillery, and the roadless mountains of Serbia present as great diffi- culties as ever to an advancing enemy.