Photograph by Herbert Corey 

 THREE GENERALS STANDING BY THE SIGNAL POST, AROUND WHICH AERIAL 

 OBSERVERS WERE WONT TO CIRCLE AND DROP THEIR MESSAGES 



At the extreme left is General Jerome, of the French army; in the center is Voivode 

 Mischitch, the Serbian strategist of the Macedonian campaign, and at the right is General 

 Sicard, of the French army. 



a pope who seemed on such bad terms 

 with his parishioners. He half turned 

 to go away. Then he turned back, as 

 though to listen to the story. 



"The Bulgarians said they would hang 

 our pope at noon if we did not give them 

 200 dinars," said the peasant, impres- 

 sively. It seemed to me that he did not 

 meet the eye of the pope. 



"What did you do?" asked the Ser- 

 bian officer who was conducting the ex- 

 amination. The peasant explained that 

 they were poor folk at Slivitska. They 

 did not have 200 dinars. Furthermore, 

 most of the people of Slivitska had hid- 

 den in the hills when the Bulgarians 

 came. 



"So the only thing we could do for 

 our father," said the peasant, suavely, 

 "was to ask the Bulgarians to postpone 

 the event until 4 o'clock. That would 

 give our people time to come in from the 

 hills and see our father hanged." 



Macedonian mud coupled with the 



Monastir road is a formidable opponent 

 of the Allied forces here. The Monastir 

 road, in spite of its centuries of use, is 

 of an incredible badness. It has no bot- 

 tom in wet weather. In dry weather it 

 is but a dust-bin, so that one can trace 

 the course of a moving column for miles 

 by the pillar-like cloud that rises. 



MAKING A BAD ROAD BEHAVE 



The Allies have done what they could 

 to make the road behave itself. But the 

 Saloniki base is at an average distance of 

 100 miles from the front line, and those 

 goods which cannot be carried upon the 

 two single-track railroads must go by the 

 Monastir road. The railroads are gen- 

 erally in an acute state of congestion. 



At all times the native ox-cart is the 

 last line of transportation defense. In 

 bad weather the railroad bridges wash 

 out. The little De Cauville railroads that 

 net the hills go completely to pieces after 

 each downpour. Their tiny tracks slip 



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