With the Serbs in Macedonia

196 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
macadam, streams have been bridged, sand
tracks robbed of their terrors, holes filled, and
gradients made possible. It used to be our out-
standing joke that the Greeks were doing very
well out of the War whether they came in or not.
Besides squeezing us for more money than they
had ever dreamed of, we were also making them
a present of better roads than they had ever
seen. The worst of it was that the climate and
the country were all against the road-makers.
The scorching sun dried their binding material
into loose powder, and the torrential rains
washed it away. This meant that the work
could never really cease in any sector— a large
number of natives must always be kept
employed on repairs and renewals. And all the
time, of course, fresh roads were becoming
necessary in other places.
One wonders what will happen afterwards.
Macedonia will find herself confronted with a
smaller edition of the problem so many people
still fear in the West. Her women, as downtrodden
and despised as any in the world, have
been earning money for themselves— ^yea even
as much as half a crown a day, in a country
where before the War most of the trading was
*'
in kind,*' a chicken was fivepence and eggs
were four a penny. Will there be a revolt ?
Will there begin a movement for Emancipation