With the Serbs in Macedonia

242 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
Here no deliverance came at the eleventh hour,
nor, as far as one knows, was any terrible doom
the fate of the drunken brutes who ran amok
because an old man would not drink to the
downfall of his king and country.
The Crown Prince was very active during the
whole campaign. Usually attended by only
one aide-de-camp, his car was always turning
up at various sectors of the front. When there
was anything doing, he was always on hand.
He appeared to be very popular, and, like his
subjects,
uniform.
had a friendly smile for a British
It may be of interest to describe one visit
paid to the trenches, which will serve to show
the sort of line the Serbs had to hold. The
journey began with a three-hours* climb on
horseback up a steep track, with
panoramic views of rock and forest.
wonderful
We halted
at Divisional Headquarters, only four hundred
metres from the firing line.
Lunch was served— a Slava lunch. The best
of being a Briton among the Serbs was that the
mere fact of one's nationality overrode all
" one !
questions of rank. We were three
pippers " then— Whitelaw and Bakes from the
British Battery and the writer, but we sat
down as honoured guests of the Staff. The
writer had expressed a casual wish one day at