With the Serbs in Macedonia

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ourselves to Ostrovo sands, and the pleasure
was decidedly not on our side. Never ask any
M.T. man from that Front to talk about
Ostrovo sands. It is hardly safe indeed to ask
the Scottish Women^s Ambulance drivers. They
have been heard to say things that— but
never mind.
It was everywhere — deep, loose, bottomless
sand, six square kilometres of it, stretching
from the shores of the lake to the foot of the
mountains. Heavy lorries bent their torque
rods in it, and had to be specially strengthened
to get through. Fords simply gave up the
ghost.
There we were, dying to win the War, and our
first act was to get sand-logged, and to add to
track. Our
our joy we had taken the wrong
only comfort was that the O.C. himself was
sun of a windless
leading ! In the broiling
September morning, ours was the pleasant job
of turning all our Henrys round and getting
them out of it ! It took some doing, but by
push and perspiration it was done, and at last
we got off with a load of sacks of flat, dark-
coloured bread for
called Katranitsa.
a supply dump at a place
None of these roads was made up then,
though in places
working
prisoners and natives were
on them. We bumped along by the