It is of course possible that the Germans will do
better in the future than they have in the past in the matter o! destroying their enemy's formations, and that when we write next we shall have to chronicle some big German success. Our hope and belief is happier. What we take it that the Rumanians are doing is retiring as slowly as they can to some carefully prepared line of entrenchments which for the past month have been dug with the utmost despatch by every spade available in the country, and by the patriotic bands of the old men, the women, and the children, though of course under skilled direction. When that line has been reached, whether it stretches between the star forts at Bucharest or " somewhere in Rumania," the Rumanian Army will await the attack of the Germans if the Germans arc in a position to oblige—i.e., first to bombard and then to assault the entrenchments at the point of the bayonet.
