“Beacons of Britishness”

Then the storm burst. The Germans and the Austrians advanced from the north; the Bulgarians swept into Macedonia from the east. It was known that all available regiments had been sent north and that, relying on the Allies, the military authorities had left the southern portion of the Bulgarian frontier practically undefended. Thus there were the makings of panic and disaster on a colossal scale. ¹