The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign The Struggle to Save a Nation

s' arm, Colonel Anderson

et my two young f

Stubbs, who, during all this time, had been standing quietly, while

tered to himself. "I'll bet they could

onel Anderson's introduction to Colonel Edward

," he said to himself

standing here. I'd like to look up a place where I can turn in for

Colonel Anderson admitted his own

he said; "or at least cots, or pallets

a row of tents

id Chester. "We're

Edwards had been holding

r who had first ac

vouch for them they a

eneg

with your permission, I shall c

make free with min

ks, in which the others joined, and then

, with never a care in the world, for it had been long since

veral moments before the lad could gain his bearings, but when at la

ping, I gue

ady rumbling sound fell upon his ears and Hal, momentarily, w

ing," he to

dark forms of many men as they marched swiftly on in the darkness, their figures lighted up eve

a moment and then turned back toward the tent, sa

on were aroused without mu

le man's query, when Hal prodded h

up," said H

eyes and peered into the dark

Anthony Stubbs get up in the

said Hal. "We don't want to

ember when you were not so solicitious of my welfare

a few moments later told that he

odded him wi

say, Stubbs

tubbs open

ter this time?" he

thinking to get the litt

ns are

tubbs. "I'll hide here

" said Chester, "just wh

yes to open and he peered

this?" he inq

plied Chester

the little man gently, and clo

onel Anderson. "He ha

ared somewha

get up out of there

s nothing will hurt him. We'll be back by daylight and I

er agreed at length; "bu

ike that answe

the way toward where he had so rec

ery were still passing in de

they are going

, I suppose,"

castically. "I thought perhaps they were on dress parad

got all about it. He told us, you remember, he would be in the tent on ou

ing here but troops, and we have seen too m

Colonel Edwards had commandeered for his temporary h

en miles northwest of

ro," he

these troops go

f them, can they be spared, will be rushed to the aid of the Serbians, who

offensive?"

aven't you h

ll you

erman army of more than 300,000 men was massing at a point on the Serbian frontier and it was asserted that the Kaiser was about to strike a blow at Serb

n August 16 the Austro-German army crossed the frontier and began a bombardment of Belgrade, the capital. This led to a crisis in the Greek parliament, where the Venizelos party c

territory taken in the last Balkan war, and for a time it seemed that Bulgaria would enter the war on the side of the Allies. However, on September 19 i

egan the disembarkation of troops at Saloniki to go to the assista

nkling of the seriousness of the Serbian plight, but had not realized until now that Germany had at last

st on the Bulgarian a

ers

ve told you, but my personal opinion is that Bu

Colonel Ande

e?" inquir

e war just as long as she possibly can. Certainly, the

," said Colonel And

now growing light, for

the light

ng," he said. "It must have been after m

oment, where he found Stubbs up and about to emerge. Togeth

d at attention, while a figure who had been in the center also jumped to the ground. This figure of huge stature, a man of advanced age, who

Colonel Edwards