They were pretty certain of dishing Serbia at the first go, and it was up to them to get through guns and shells to the old Turk, who was running pretty short in his first supply.

Sandy said that they wanted the railway, but they wanted still more the river, and they could make certain of that in a week.
He told us how endless strings of barges, loaded up at the big factories of Westphalia, were moving through the canals from the Rhine or the Elbe to the Danube.

Once the first reached Turkey, there would be regular delivery, you see--as quick as the Turks could handle the stuff.

And they didn't return empty, Sandy said, but came back full of Turkish cotton and Bulgarian beef and Rumanian corn.

I don't know where Sandy got the knowledge, but there was the proof of it before my eyes.
It was a wonderful sight, and I could have gnashed my teeth to see those loads of munitions going snugly off to the enemy.