A FIERCE BATTLE.
MOROCCO REBELS SURROUND SULTAN’S FORCES. FORTY DECAPITATED AND HEADS SUSPENDED. By Telegraph—Press Associalion—Copyright London, Dee. 24. Advicoa from Tangier states that the rebels got round the Sultan of Morocco's forces. A bloody battle ensued. Tho rebels decapitated forty, tho pretender suspending their heads from his tent. The Sultan has sent reinforcements. I-Ie threatened to deal mercilessly with tho Teya tribesmen, but was dissuaded. The Times says that a recent pretender has become Vizier to the new pretender, who is called Bushamara, as a sort of new Mahdi.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 27 December 1902, Page 2
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90A FIERCE BATTLE. Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 27 December 1902, Page 2
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