The young lady on horseback below is Mary Barber, TIME Inc.'s string correspondent in Athens. On the morning this photograph was taken a few weeks ago she was returning from a twelve-hour night patrol with a complement of Greek Army cavalrymen in the "bandit-infested" countryside south of the town of Komotine, Thrace. The purpose of her night ride was to observe the workings of the officer observer-advisers of the U.S. Army Group in Greece. Cabled she:
"As our cavalcade of 50 horsemen, armed with six Bren guns, eight Thompsons and rifles, trotted down Komotine's...