NEWS OF THE WEEK
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ON Thursday Turkey declared war against Bulgaria and Servia. The fact that Greece was not included was, we suppose, a form of Turkish compliment. Very late on Thursday evening Greece declared war on Turkey. Thus the position has been regularized for all four allied States, and military action on a great scale may now occur at any moment. War, as we pointed out in these columns when most of our contemporaries were still talking of and believing in peace, was, in truth, inevitable from the beginning. The combatants, however, did not think anything was to be gained by declaring war till they had first mobilized, and then concentrated their forces at the positions from which they wished to attack the enemy. When those preparations had taken place it was in nobody's interest, either apparent or real, to delay the declara- tions. But though we have known that all the States con- cerned were making their concentrations, so strict has been the censorship in all cases that no one knows how the various armies are at present disposed in the huge theatre of war. All the States have been working behind a veil. When that veil is raised, as it will be by events in a few days, there will probably be many surprises, military and naval.
