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At Kragujevatz I fell right into the Karageorgevitch party. That I met them in strength in Kragujevatz is now a matter of interest. At the time I little dreamed that from this straggling big village it could hardly be called a town would emanate bombs that would set Europe on fire. The Royal Arsenal is at Kragujevatz, and when I was there in 1902 the place was certainly a centre of disaffection.
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.
When he turned round to go on with the work the aide had fled and never appeared again. I met Dr. Churchin. He is one of the best Serbs I have yet met, a philosopher. He was looking after the English units in Kragujevatz and I learnt did it excellently, and with a devotion to his duties altogether unusual.
His name was not John Willie, but it sounded rather like it, so we just turned it into John Willie. He loved the name, and told his father about it. They sat all afternoon hand-in-hand, saying at intervals, "Dgonn Oolie," and chuckling. Jan once had brought back from a spring visit to Kragujevatz some horrible sun hats.
The former kingdom was divided into five territorial divisional districts Nish, Valievo, Belgrade, Kragujevatz, and Zaitchar. Each of these territorial divisional districts was subdivided into four regimental recruiting districts, each of which provided one infantry regiment of four battalions and one depot battalion.
At Kragujevatz, he prevented the completion of the house of M. Raditchevitch, because some statues of wood, and ornaments, which were not to be found in his own palace, were in the plan. An almanack having been printed, with a portrait of his niece Auka, he caused all the copies to be given back by the subscribers, and the portraits cut out."
The Serbian youth who had been put on the staff as secretary, was dangerously ill with typhoid fever, which he had picked up at Kragujevatz. The typhus barrack was a children's hospital, containing little waifs chosen from the out-patients, and a few women. In the early days when we had first arrived at Vrntze there were several overfilled Serbian and one Greek hospital.
We heard the tale of Kragujevatz, of the camp and all the buildings filled to overflowing. More aeroplane raids; and of the sudden order to evacuate. All the wounded who could crawl were got from their beds and turned into the street by the authorities to go: if they could not walk, to crawl.
A girl proudly held up a large piece of map scorched all round the edges. "And the men?" we asked. We came into the Stobarts' camp, pitched up on the hill behind the Kragujevatz pleasure ground. "Did you see the aeroplanes?" they cried, running towards us. "No," we answered; "but we saw the shrapnel." "One was hit it was wonderful.
We had come back to this little world after seven weeks' wandering, and almost immediately Jan had gone off to Kragujevatz with a broken motor. While he was away Jo got letters from England and Paris, which made her realize that things were rather in a mess, and we should have to go home. We had left England intending to stay in Serbia three months, and had been then nearly nine.
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