. The cradle of the war, the Near East and Pan-Germanism. With foreword by A. Lawrence Lowell . e valleys of the Vardar and of theMesta. With the exception of very few roads, thepaths consisted of the merest tracks strewn with rockystones so numerous that one had to ride, to stumble, orto clamber along them as best one might. The nativebridges were so narrow, so shaky, and so steep, thatone crossed them only at the greatest risk. Moreoverthe winter rains and snows, which in the mountainsare very heavy, make the roads — where roads exist— and the fords well-nigh, if not quite, impossible. This
. The cradle of the war, the Near East and Pan-Germanism. With foreword by A. Lawrence Lowell . e valleys of the Vardar and of theMesta. With the exception of very few roads, thepaths consisted of the merest tracks strewn with rockystones so numerous that one had to ride, to stumble, orto clamber along them as best one might. The nativebridges were so narrow, so shaky, and so steep, thatone crossed them only at the greatest risk. Moreoverthe winter rains and snows, which in the mountainsare very heavy, make the roads — where roads exist— and the fords well-nigh, if not quite, impossible. This all means, except where the country has beenoccupied for some time and where the methods ofcommunication have been improved, that the utilityof motor vehicles, transport waggons, and big gunsupon which a modern army depends, is greatly mini-mised, and that special transport and mountain gunsmust be provided for service upon the numeroustracks which are not passable for wheeled drought of the summer, which makes water,except in the actual valleys, a difficulty for THE RIDDLE OF SALONICA 269 places upon the supply sections of the army a burdenthe magnitude of which it is difficult to lastly the climatic and other conditions are suchthat it was and is impossible to expect that the healthof the troops engaged would or will be comparableto that of those fighting in more healthy theatres ofwar — theatres in which, when contingents are with-drawn for rest, measures can be taken, in a way im-possible at Salonica, to insure the counteraction ofwhat must always be hard and arduous fighting at theactual front. These are some of the factors which make it im-possible to exaggerate the military difficulties sur-rounding the conduct of a campaign in this part ofthe Balkan Peninsula— difficulties which when coupledwith the central and therefore strategically strongposition of Bulgaria and with the effects of the earlierattitude of Greece are resp
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