With the Serbs in Macedonia

8 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
long spells of idleness that seem inseparable
from the silly business of war, our men knew a
certain amount of danger, difficulty, and dis-
comfort, and faced death from aeroplane,
accident, and disease. However, one may as
well begin a little nearer to the beginning.
706, 707, 708, and 709 M.T. Companies were
specially devised to carry supplies and ammunition
for the Serbians in the almost railless, road-
less Balkans. The idea was that heavy lorries
would work from the railhead, as far as the
roads were practicable for such vehicles. From
that point, Ford vans would carry on, using
tracks and passes impossible for the ''
heavies.*'
Rail and road makers and menders, of course,
were to get busy while the armies fought, and
so, step by step, everybody was to journey to
Belgrade. That was the idea— but in practice
things worked out a little differently.
To begin with, there was a difficulty about
control, which was finally settled, as the Serbs
had no motor transport of their own, by what
was known as the Serbian M.T. Units being
placed under the British Director of Supplies
and Transport, General Arthur Long. In other
words, British transport was to work for the
Serbians under the direction of the French— a
situation bristling with possibilities of discord.
It is gratifying, however, to be able to record