ely precarious. The roads through Macedonia are few,
and the best are not suited to automobile traffic. The few prisoners
that the French and English were able to take evinced the fact that
the Bulgarians were being badly supplied and that the soldiers were
starved to the point of exhaustion. And finally, from a military point
of view, the Allied troops were now in the most favorable position.
Their lines were drawn in close to their base, Saloniki, with short,
interior communications. The Bulgarians, on the contrary, were
obliged to spread themselves around the wide semicircle formed by the
Anglo-French lines. To have taken Saloniki would have been for them an
extremely costly undertaking, if, indeed, it would have at all been
possible.

On the other hand, it was equally obvious that the Allies were not,
and would not be, for a long time to come, in a position to direct an
effective offensive against the Bulgarians in Macedonia. That they and
their German allies realized this was apparent from the fact that the
German forces now began withdrawing in large numbers.

The Bulgarians, however, did not attempt to assist their German allies
on any of the other fronts, a fact which throws some light on the
Bulgarian policy. Naturally, it is in the interests of the Bulgarians
that the Teutons should win the war, therefore it might have been
expected that they would support them on other fronts, notably in
Galicia. That this has never been done shows conclusively that the
alliance with the Germans is not popular among the Bulgarians. They
have, rather reluctantly, been willing to fight on their own
territory, or what they considered rightly their own territory, but
they have not placed themselves at the disposal of the Germans on the
other fronts. It is obvious that Ferdinand has not trusted to oppose
his soldiers against the Russians.

Meanwhile the forces under Sarrail were being daily augmented and
their position about Saloniki was being strengthened. By this time all
the Serbians who had fled through Albania, including the aged King
Peter, had been transported to the island of Corfu, where a huge
sanitarium was established, for few were the refugees that did not
require some medical treatment. Cholera did, in fact, break out among
them, which caused a protest on the part of the Greek Government. Just
how many Serbians arrived at Corfu has never been definitely stated,
but recent reports would indicate that they numbered