2 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 17

If we banish from our minds the possibility of a

military miracle, what we may expect is that Nazim Pasha's army will fall back to the Tchatalja lines, and the Bulgarians will then have something like a Port Arthur problem to face. How General Savoff will solve that problem it is not for us to say, but we venture to think he will not knock his army to pieces against the entrenchments. It might suit him better to work round to the Dardanelles and carry the war into Asia, and threaten Constantinople from the rear. It is true he has not got any sea power, but Constantinople and the armies in front of it must die of starvation if the course we have sketched out were adopted. In all probability, however, peace will have been made before that happens.