With the Serbs in Macedonia

78 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
there in their thousands. It seems strange so
many should be allowed to exist in an agricultural
countr}^, but possibly that is only a
side-issue of the War. In times of peace some
effort may be made to keep their numbers
down. As trees are very scarce— and will be
scarcer still for some years after the Allied
army's visit— there are very few rookeries
about, and the majority of these birds roost on
the ground at night.
Practically all the English war correspondents
visited us while we were at Neokazi. Calvert,
of The Times, turned up one day very hungry,
and was sent on his way rejoicing in one of our
vans with a Maconochie ration and a loaf of
bread. He was accompanied by that prince
of photographers, Beswich, a Serbian, who
stayed up on a mountain all night with a
thousand unburied dead to secure a good photo
in the morning, and so place on pictorial record
one of the finest achievements of his countrymen.
Ward Price was also a frequent and very
welcome visitor, and his appetite for buttered
toast in a tent on a chilly afternoon is one of
the most pleasant recollections of the War.
Ferguson, who was with him, was left completely
in the shade. Noel, the American, was another
of our friends, and we all regretted his return
to Paris.