_Letter from Colonel Dr. Lazar Guentchitch, Head of the Serbian Army Medical Service, to the Chief of the English Medical Mission, Madame St. Clair Stobart._ "Knowing your hospital as one of the best arranged amongst foreign hospitals, thoroughly organised for the work nearer the front and supplied with all up-to-date necessary material and utensils, I have the honour to inform you that your hospital is on that account selected to keep in touch with our Army--in case it moves or comes into contact with the enemy--keeping always behind the Army and close thereto, and thus be enabled to do the work of a real Field Hospital. "Since your arrival in Serbia, Madame, you have succeeded in giving to your hospital--first intended for military purposes only--a further function of wider importance, by extending the same in a form of Ambulance sections solely for civilian needs. This meant a greater boon still, as our nation was almost left without doctors, all having been engaged with the Army. The huge number of ambulance patients who call on your Roadside Dispensary, situated close to the hospital of your Mission in Kragujevatz, is the best proof how good the idea was of forming such ambulances. "Therefore it will quite meet the situation that your hospital--during this lull until the Army operations begin--be extended by adding a few sections for the treatment of civilians in the nearer districts. "With the personnel and material now at your disposal you will be able to establish some other small dispensaries in a few places in the vicinity, besides the hospital in Kragujevatz, and thus work right up to the re-commencement of war operations, when all the various sections will quickly join into one big sanitary organisation, prepared to meet every requirement near the front. "I have the honour, therefore, to request you to kindly inform the Committee, by whose help you have organised and brought your Mission to Serbia, as well as your personnel, which is assisting you most heartily in your continuous aims to help the Serbian nation, and to make clear to them how urgent is the necessity for your hospital to continue its work in Serbia for a further period. "COLONEL DR. GUENTCHITCH, "_Chief of Sanitary Section_. "_June 26th (July 9th), 1915._ "Kragujevatz." Letter from the Chief of the Serbian Army Medical Service (translated at the Serbian Legation, London): "General Headquarters. "S.D. No. 29273. "On the occasion of the suspension of the combined Anglo-Serbian Field Hospital, over which you had command during the last fighting and retreat of the Serbian Army, from the first half of September until the 9th December, 1915, I have the honour to address the following letter to you: