We have dealt at length elsewhere with the whole question,
and will only say here that as long as the Rumanian forces not merely remain in being, but remain as little injured as is apparently now the case, there is no sort of ground for despair. For ourselves, we may say that we shall not be in the least surprised if Rumania " comes again," and is able to deal a very shrewd blow at her assailants. Very possibly it would have been better tactics if Rumania had merely held the Transylvanian frontier against the Austrian and German attack, and had confined her own efforts to a short, sharp, sudden blow at Sofia. However, it is no good to cry over spilt milk, and perhaps ,Rumania by her apparently too ambitious military policy may have forced the Germans into an effort which will turn out in the end to have exhausted them, and given us exactly the opportunity which we needed in the West— the opportunity of a weakened line.
