EXPEDITION TO MOROCCO.
, A . FRENCH OFFICERS' MURDER. (By Telecraph—Pres3 Association CopyriEht) (Rec. March 15, 11.10 p.m.) Paris, March 15. Tho Government is dispatching n force of infantry and artillery to Casablanca, Morocco, to punish the murderers of Lieutenant Marchand, who was killed in January by tho Moors. , A wireless telegram from Rabat, Morocco, on January 18, renorted tho murder of five French soldiers by Moorish bandits. A part of the Zcer tribe having requested French arbitration in a question of the marking out of pasture land, a French cantain, with an escort, wont to the spot, "camping there. During tho night the French were surprised and attacked by an unknown party. A French lieutenant, a sergeant, and three men were killed, while six were wounded. The Moors icft no dead or wounded.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19110316.2.52
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
132EXPEDITION TO MOROCCO. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in