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Show COMMUNICATION Situation in Greece. What is the situation in Greece nowadays? now-adays? The allies say that they have about 600,000 men of Anglo-French origin ori-gin and about 150,000 men of Servian origin, in all about 750, COD men. Now to be more conservative, with their figures, fig-ures, we will say that they onv have 600,-orn 600,-orn men all told. Thus 600.000 men have to protect a front of 2u0 miles, or, in other words, they have 3000 men to every mile. At the same lime we se from t he latest war news that the Bulgarians bent both left and right wings of t he allies' lines, and, while 011 the left wing they have not sained any too much, on 1 1 1 e r i c h t t h ey have reached the Aegean sea and extended ex-tended themselves alontr a fifty-mile "Ireek shore. That is exactly ihe space tiie Greeks gained from Bulgaria hi the second Balkan war in the time of a month and a half and at a loss of nearly 40.i)u0 men and with an army of scarcely l.sn,-oeo l.sn,-oeo men. Tho right wing, which the Bulgarians bent, is about seventy-five miles lone, and according to the allies' military strength that part must he defended de-fended by 'JJj.ttOO men. Now, then, the allies want us to believe that t lie CLW'Ufl men could not hold the invading in-vading fore of not over Uu.noo men. themselves being on the defensive, too, and not onlv (hat, but that they had to give all that ground away within a week's time. If thev actually wanted to believe that (which we don't, and that to their soldiers' credit) we have to be forced to give very poor compliments to their armv and perfect equipment. Then, what is wrong with them? There is nothing wrong at alt. It is just an exaggeration ex-aggeration of numbers. They .iust sim-plv sim-plv started exaggerating them, week after week, until they reached that number, and that is all. And to think that they themselves were the whole cause of the Bulgarian advance, too! As it v?s before, Greece was defending the extreme lett and right wings. The nines thought that it would be to' their advantage if they would eet rid of the Greek army, as they did not know what the. Greeks might do. They demanded the demobilization demobil-ization of it and, to succeed in this, they blockaded Greece for over a month, until un-til they finally succeeded. With the demobilization de-mobilization of the Greek army, those wings wei e left undefended and hence the Bulgarian advance. Xow. then, when they saw the danger they demanded the mobilization again of the Greek army and the immediate declaration decla-ration of war by Greece against Bulgaria and the rest of her allies before it would be too late for help by announcing another an-other blockade. And we lind in the English En-glish papers, such as the -Morning Post, the following lines: "For her indecision and weakness. Greece is now suffering heavily, but there are signs that under the teachings of bitter experience the Greek people are coming to their senses. They will be wise to look to it that their repentance does not come loo late." GEORGE CORDES. Boise, October 17. |