With the Serbs in Macedonia

TRANSPORT TROUBLES 8i
The rows of cars with their engines resting on
wooden blocks daily increased in length, and we
all began to wonder what would become of us
in the event of a retreat. For a long time,
mainly through sickness, we had been suffering
from a shortage of men. This had been temporarily
remedied by the attachment of a
section of Serbian drivers, and now, by the
delicious irony of Base depots and the high
''
gods, they began to send us reinforcements,"
as they are technically called. It ended up in
our having a personnel of two hundred and
fifty for eight runnable vans.
Daily there were aeroplane "strafes," but
very few bombs were dropped. We used to
hope they would drop bombs on our derelicts—
anything, anything to get rid of these long lines
of idle vans on ''
Macedonian springs "— but
they never did it. What they
did do was to
bring down the observation Sausage twice,
though, for our entertainment, and each time
the observer landed safely.
It doesn't sound much written down, and it
was, of course, a commonplace in the West ;
but think for a moment what it means. The
observer is sitting up aloft directing the fire of
his guns. Suddenly an enemy 'plane appears.
Observer and enemy each fire their machineguns,
but the enemy has the easier mark. He