With the Serbs in Macedonia

240 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
They were, indeed, very British in the way they
regarded the enemy. He was there to be fought
with, but once the fight was over the enmity
was over too. They had many prisoners —
Germans, Bulgars and Turks— and they were
kind to them all. Their food was
uniformly
good, their quarters the same as their own, and
the guards did not overdrive them when at work
on the roads. The prisoners' readiness to smile,
and their friendship with their custodians told
their own tale. In the camp at Seres, indeed,
during the 1918 Easter festivities, the Bulgarian
prisoners and the Serbian soldiers danced the
Kolo together. But, of course, that evil sprite
that mocks at the hopes of amateur photographers
arranged that the two snapshots I
tried to make of this historic occasion should be
failures !
Yet if ever a nation had cause to be revengeful,
Serbia certainly had. Twice their land had been
overrun by the foe, and many terrible atrocities
had unquestionably been committed. But it
was very difficult to get them to talk about
these things, and never did they express any
wish to do the same to the enemy if ever they
had the chance.
One story made a great impression on us.
There was a certain Serbian manufacturer,
rich, old, and with a well-appointed house. To