28 OCTOBER 1916, Page 1

The news from Salonika is good, and we note with

special satis- faction that the left wing of the Allied Armies is now in touch with the Italian force working from Valona. While speaking of the Allies in the Balkans, we may note an interesting fact recorded by Mr. Ward Price in Thursday's papers. We are glad to see that the Serbians are not only treating their Bulgarian prisoners exceedingly well, but doing what we have always thought we and the French ought to do—advertising as widely as possible their good treatment of prisoners, and so counteracting the monstrous and interested falsehoods of the German General Staff, who do everything they can to inspire their men with the belief that the Allies will treat them with savage inhumanity. That is, no doubt, a natural course for the Germans to take when they are afraid of their troops giving themselves up.