It is to be feared, however, that the Germans will
keep to their essential object of controlling the railway communications through Bulgaria to Turkey, and when that is accomplished make no further advance into Serbia. What Germany is doing now is carrying out an operation analogous to throwing munitions into a beleagund city. She does not want to invade in force, but only to convey shell and other war supplies into Constantinople for use at the Dardanelles and elsewhere. The German Press and public talk, of course, a great deal about schemes of a Napoleonic kind for penetrating Asia Minor, and sending expeditions via the Tigris and Euphrates to the Persian Gulf and India. That is mere dreamy rhetoric. The cause of the invasion of Serbia is, we believe, something very much simpler. Unless we are very much mistaken, some two months ago the Turks told the Germane plainly that they were getting down to their last shell, and that if the Germans could not succeed in sending through munitions and other help before the end of October, they would have to make the best terms they could with their enemies.
