With the Serbs in Macedonia

172 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
We had another famine during this period.
This time it was sparking plugs, but luckily
supplies got through before it became serious.
The dust was beastly. It powdered our noses
and lay thick on our clothes ; it sneaked in
under our goggles and made a stiff paste at the
corners of our mouths.
We simply had to insist on having this pass
to ourselves. When we began it was crowded
with horse transport, and the blocks were worse
than those that would happen at the Bank if
there were no men in blue there to regulate the
traffic. It was impossible to regulate it here.
There was always a jam at the place where two
vehicles could not pass, and the horse transport
was always cutting into the wood across
country and spoiling all our best-laid schemes.
So we came to an arrangement by which we had
the pass by day, and the horse transport had it
to themselves at night.
As an illustration of how the M.T. live when
they get the chance it may be recorded that we
had a splendid camp here. The road that led
to the Officers' Mess we turned into an avenue,
marked out with fir branches stuck into the
ground, which looked like growing trees and
lasted a remarkably long time. The Scottish
Women's Hospital had an advanced station
close by, and on several occasions when their