With the Serbs in Macedonia

i6 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
that Ford did more than its own
Altogether
value of damage on its first day out, and
incidentally the reader observe the
may be interested to
sort of drivers some of our men
then were. This particular M.T. man had had
only three days' instruction before being passed
as efficient ! A curious little detail was that
some of the pieces of falling glass had cut clean
through thirty or of calico.
forty thicknesses of a bolt
The foregoing incident brings another back
to memory that occurred a few days later.
Another officer was convoying a batch of new
cars from Bulford to our camp, and in a collision
one van was knocked down a bank and
turned turtle. There was a sickening noise of
smashing glass, splintering wood, and dinting
tin. Fearing the worst, the wreck was approached
and the driver
move without assistance.
discovered unable to
He raised a blood-stained face to his officer.
''
Shall oi 'ave to pay
anxiously.
Days passed
for ut ? ''
he asked
and vehicles were sent on in
advance till we had only forty left, and then
came an order to move. It was duly cancelled,
and then repeated ; and despite previous dis-
appointments we decided that we must really
be off at last. Good-byes were said all over