If, therefore, we were to read of Falkenhayn getting within
sight of Bucharest, we should not ask for smelling-salts I We venture to say, however, that he will not do anything of the kind. Our belief is that his push has reached its maximum, and that the clockwork is now beginning to run down. It is an open secret that his great advantage has been in having much heavier artillery than that possessed up till now by the Rumanians. Ho is, more- over, entering a country where the traction of big guns is very diffi- cult, and this difficulty may at any moment be rendered infinitely greater by heavy rains or even faille of snow. In that theatre of war winter often arrives with the beginning of November. But if these difficulties are encountered by the German force, which apparently does not number now more than two hundred thousand men, the exhaustion of which we have spoken will soon begin to show its dire consequences. An enemy's country, few roads, long lines of communication, a single line of railway, immense delays in getting up supplies and drafts I It is not a very rosy picture. The truth is that the Serbian analogy does not in the least hold. Rumania is too big a country to be rushed. Serbia was what the butchers call " sizeable " for that treatment. Rumania is not.
