The contest now assumed greater proportions, and the reconquest of Greece seemed extremely probable.

With its fall the war will be virtually ended,for the reconquest of the disturbed territories will be a matter of little difficulty, when undertaken with the aid of the twenty thousand English troops who will arrive in India before the end of the year.

He declared that a war of reconquest by Germany against the Allies and especially against France is for an indefinite time completely impossible from the technical and military point of view.