13 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 2

Meanwhile the vacillation of the Greek Government con- tinues, and

has reached a point which we, as friends of Greece and erstwhile believers in her future, can only regard as one of the greatest of national tragedies. We are not going to threaten Greece, or suggest any sort of vindictive action towards her, even if her timidity continues to the end, and a tepid neutrality is the best she can do to help her Serbian allies, and her French, British, and Russian well-wishers, At the same time, no ono can get over the great fact of life that you cannot help those who will not help themselves, and that to attempt to hunt with the hare and run with the hounds must always prove a failure.