The week closes with what can fairly be called somewhat
less bad news from Serbia than was expected. The main German attack goes distinctly slowly, and the flank attack of the Bulgarians, which was much more dreaded by the Serbians, also seems, for the time at any rate, to be hanging fire. Very little news comes as to the Allies' operations, but we hear of successful French counter-attacks upon the Bulgarians, and also of British cavalry being in action. At the same time it is stated, though the news here is rightly very vague, that troops, both French and English, are pouring into Salonika. A landing is also said to have taken place at ICavalla, a largo town which is in the centre of the Turkish tobacco trade. So confused, however, is the military situation in the Balkans that it is useless to attempt to pursue it in detail. We can only say that the Serbians, though very hard pressed, are still at Nisb, and that, though threatened, Monastic has not yet fallen.
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