November 0, IQ15. 
LAND AND UATER 
THE POSITION IN SERBIA. 
By HILAIRE BELLOC. 
NOTE. — This Article has been submitted to the Press Bureau, which does not object to the publication as censored, and takes no 
responsibility for the correctness of the statements. 
In accordance with the requirements of the Press Bureau, the positions of troops on Plans illustratinji this Article must only be 
regarded as approximate, and no definite strength at any point is indicated. 
EVERYTHING in Serbia is now a question 
of supply. \\c ha\-e not the statistics of 
Serbian supply : neither of the reserve 
of munitions nor of the food. The in- 
creasing encircHng pressure on the Serbian 
armies as a whole need not destroy them. There 
is still a broad country of wild hills to fall back 
upon South and East. But it will be impossible 
even with such an advantage of ground to main- 
tain such forces in being (nearly a quarter of a 
million), if supply fails before help arrives ; and 
the same conditions that give the highlands their 
defensive value make supply across and through 
them difficult. 
Hence the importance of Uskub. 
The occupation of Uskub by a hostile 
force — Bulgarian in the present case — is the 
keystone of all hostile strategy in Serbia. And 
that for this reason : That Uskub stands at 
the junction of those two gfeat natural ways 
by which alone, as political boundaries now 
stand, munitions and reinforcements (and perhaps 
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