With the Serbs in Macedonia

112 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
Their forces were divided into three armies,
the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. By the beginning of
August each of these armies had divisions at
the Front, the ist round Goumendza, the 2nd
in the Moglena District, and the 3rd in the
Ostrovo-Banitsa-Florina sector. There were
four divisions and the Volunteers in the first
line, two divisions in the second, and the
remainder in reserve. The Cavalry were still
in camp, east of Salonica, except
the 2nd
Regiment, which was protecting the railway
line to Fiorina. There had been a little not
very important fighting in the meantime, and
the line now held was roughly parallel to the
Serbo-Greek frontier, which the Bulgars had
held since their capture of Monastir in the black
days of November, 1915. In some places the
Serbs were separated from the enemy by
in some
contingents of Greek frontier guards ;
they were actually in touch, and in others there
was a mountainous no man's land between
them. The occupation of this long and difficult
line, indeed, was mainly tentative, a matter of
advanced posts and starting points, preparatory
to the so often delayed Allied offensive which
had been in the air ever since we moved out of
the Bird Cage.
On the 31st July a demonstration attack was
ordered. Rumania was still hesitating and