Headquarters of Gommander-in-Chief at Kovno
cations, perhaps also other political and military circumstances, unknown to me, prevented us from completing our operations with an attack on Salonica, where the first Entente troops were arriving to join in the fighting. The capture of Salonica would have

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Main German attack.
ain A ustro-^ Hungarian attacks.
Main Bulgar-  \ ian attacks.

Fig. 5,   The Campaign in Servia, 1915.
considerably relieved our position in the Balkan Peninsula. It is dear to me, in the light of subsequent experience, that by such an operation we should not have gained even one Bulgarian for the Western Front. The English, French and Serbians who
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