With the Serbs in Macedonia

256 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
It was delivered by the Serbs. After twentyfour
hours' bombardment by the whole of the
Serbian artillery and a great number of French
heavy field guns, a break through was effected
on the 15th from Bahavo to Sokol on the front
of the Second Serbian Army. This was the
front before which even the Serbs had been
held up ever since the campaign in the Balkans
began. It included a series of heavily fortified
mountain positions— Dobropoli, Vetrenik, Koz-
jak, and Sokol— which the Serbians had stared
at despairingly for two and a half years, and
suffered
capture.
many casualties in vain efforts to
But reinforced now by several thousand
Jugo-Slav volunteers, mostly Austrian-
trained subjects to whom capture meant death ;
spurred on by a desperate feeling that this was
the psychological moment, that if only this blow
could be hammered well home the end was in
sight ; grimly resolute in the spirit of a
forlorn hope — this wonderful Serbian Army
scaled and took one by one all those strongly
defended
''
impregnable "
heights, in spite
of a desperate resistance on the part of the
enemy. '.^'
It was another amazing achievement ; how
amazing, once more, only those who have seen
can understand. One feels that one's enthusiasm
is damaging — but truth is truth. Go out