earnt did it excellently, and with a devotion to his duties altogether
unusual. He told me that I had been nominated an honorary captain; but I
am under the impression that it is an honour I cannot by national law
accept.

We went in the afternoon in the car towards Rudnik to examine the one
which had broken down. I soon saw that nothing could be done on the
spot, and ordered it to continue its "bullocky" progress to the camp. In
the evening went off to the Government motor school, where I found my
old friend Ristich and Colonel Derrock; both these men are first-class
Serbs--jolly, keen and friendly.

October 5th. Our car not being finished, Mr. Berry and Sister Hammond
went back to Vrntze in a car lent by Colonel Derrock. I was to stay till
all the repairs were completed on ours. There was another scare of
aeroplanes, and the whole town emptied itself, families pouring by en
route for the country; but the planes did not come. I went down to the
arsenal and got on with the repairs. Dr. May lent me her camera and I
got some photos. Mrs. Stobart went off with her "flying field force,"
taking with her nearly all the men and almost all the cars: if the
hospital get many serious cases I imagined that they would be dreadfully
shorthanded.

In the night the two German aeroplanists were buried without military
honours. The Serbs said that they were assassins and deserved nothing.
Still, Kragujevatz is an arsenal.

October 6th. Another aeroplane scare; town emptied itself once more. Dr.
MacLaren and I rushed off to the anti-aircraft guns, hoping to get some
photos; but nothing occurred. Got the Rudnik car running by taking Mr.
McBlack's useless car to pieces. In the evening two sisters went to
Uskub. One of the sisters went to get her bag, and I took what I thought
to be a short cut to help her. I passed between the tents, and was
striding along, when--Plop! I found myself swimming in a deep tank of
water. The sister heard me fall, and ran back to the camp crying out--

"Help, help! The stranger is drowning in the bath-water sewage tank."

I clambered out, and hastily fled to my tent, where kindly souls brought
me an indiarubber bath and hot water. I also got some refugee pyjamas,
in which I wandered about for the rest of the evening. My clothes were
taken to the kitchen and hung over the big stove.

October 7th. Went to the arsenal in borrowed refugee clothes miles too
large. Worried the car till it worked. At lunch clot