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Show BRITISH TROOPS IN MACEDONIA Forces Have Been on Border of Strumc Valley Since June 1916. DESERTED WILDERNESS Anopeles Mosquito of Jungle More Deadly Than Enemy Bullets or Shells. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN MACEDONIA, August 25. (Correspondence (Correspon-dence of tho Associated Press) The right of the British line In Macedonia is fqrmed by the Struma valley. British Bri-tish troops arrived here in June, 1916, when tho temperature was 105 in tho shade and they have been there ever since. It is an area of varied fighting. A few miles of trench warfare .then a vast patrolling area of No Man's Land and No Man's Sea, the latter being the lake with its flotilla of tiny patrol boats. Most of the fighting has taken place in the Seres plain, once the most fertile tobacco and grain areas in the world but now a jungle of monstrous wild plants which tower high over a man's head so that the whole area is a stifling, bewildering', deserted wilderness. wil-derness. The inhabitants have long since disappeared dis-appeared with the unconscious resignation resig-nation of those who for years have been known to the visitors but the armies have no history but that of death from the impartial bullets and shells of rival invaders whose quarrels the local inhabitants neither understood under-stood nor cared about The Anopeles mosquito is now tho uncrowned monarch of this whole country. It is a far moro deadly enemy ene-my than bullets or shells and armies cannot live in the jungle so this this vast area is now only a district for patrols. The British have their position posi-tion on one range of the hills, the Bulgarians Bul-garians on the other and their patrols often mejt in that vast, florid No Man's Land. But since the Bulgarians are always nervous about Seres and the railway, they have to ccupy a northern strip of the valley and that is where tho British continually annoy and harass them. In this area the British are always al-ways on the offensive raiding and feinting and doing their utmost to keep the Bulgarians m a continuous state of nerves. |