With the Serbs in Macedonia

76 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
Russia, Rumania, Italy, and Turkey — similar
scenes were taking place there, both sides of the
line. One mustn't forget that. The Central
Powers—
they, too, were suffering just like
this. Blood was flowing among them : their
women were weeping and their children were
trying to realize that Daddy wasn't coming
home from the War one day, after all.
Passing into that crudely
decorated Greek
Orthodox Church, with the wind blowing
through the shell-hole, one's brain reeled. To
think sanely was impossible. One wanted it to
one wanted it to
stop; passionately, madly
stop then and there. And at the same time
one wanted it to go on—
ay, on and on, whatever
the cost, till the enemy was beaten to his knees
and the whole world was so revolted and so
weary of the dreadful business that never could
it ! happen again And one wanted to go out
and join in the — slaughter one resented the
decision of doctors who condemned one to the
A.S.C. One wanted to go out and kill and kill.
Moved by pity of these silently suffering Serbs,
one wanted to make more suffering just like
that. Yes. Sane thinking goes when the
ultimatum expires. Muddle and mess of brain
and body — that's war.
The Serbs were fighting then with that
steadfast courage and determination that char-