With the Serbs in Macedonia

INTO THE BREACH ONCE MORE iii
still holding this sector. The Serbians had
learned from a Venizelist that secret telephonic
communication existed from Monastir by way
of Resna, Stegne, Kalabaka, and Larissa to
Athens itself. This line was tapped by the
Wolf in the neighbourhood of Biklista, where
he had the pleasure of listening to a conversation
between Athens and Stegne conducted
partly in Greek, which he did not understand,
and partly in German, which he did. Naturally
that line was promptly cut—and the Germanophil
Greek Prefect, Panas, actually had the
impudence to protest (i) against the Serbians
having listened to his conversation and (2)
unkindly preventing him from passing on any
It was also
more information to the enemy !
discovered that up
regular courier service between Monastir and
Athens, the people in the secret about this
telephone line putting up couriers on their
till now there had been a
journeys.
Meanwhile, the Serbian Army was gradually
moving to the Front, eager to
''
have another
slap at the enemy,'' and nice
very proud of
new clothes and equipment. All
their
their
suffering was forgotten, or, rather, put aside.
War had become a habit to them by now, and
the taking back of their beloved country an
idee fixe.