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Show BRITISH TROOPS ARE IN SERBIA Contingent Reaches Point Forty Miles Northwest of Salon iki French Holding Hold-ing Strong Positions. Paris, Nov. 4, 9:30 a, m. The first British contingent arrived Friday at Guevguell in the Serbian theater, according ac-cording to a Havas despatch, filed Saturday at Saloniki, but delayed. The British force will act as a separate unit but In collaboration with the French troops. Guovgueli is just i across the Greek border, forty miles northwest of Saloniki. General M. P. E. Sarrall, commander command-er of the allies' expeditionary forces in Serbia, returned Friday from a hasty inspection of the French front foom Guevgueli to Krlvolak. He waB favorably Impressed with the French positions which are strongly held on the heights of Babrovo, Gradek, Dom-ler Dom-ler and Kahou. The French forces advancing northwest north-west from the Greek frontier have not yet affected a junction with the hard pressed Serbian armies In the vicinity of Veles. The fighting in this district has been desperate and the Serbs once recaptured Veles after It. had fallen to tho Bulgars, only to lose it again on October 31. This town, 23 miles bouUi of Uskub, is on the railroad to Saloniki. |