THE MOROCCAN WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1925, Page 2

THE MOROCCAN WAR

kUK'JKiLIAM AMI N.Z. CARL* iSoOOiA'I'ION. SPANISH POSTS CUT OFF. MADRID. July 22. The newspapers publish disquieting dispatches Iroin fez, reporting the oticiii yhus entrenched between Arbastisza and Ainaielia. thus preventing the provisioning of Spanish posts, which are holding out. despite pressure. Anumber ot Turkish Colonels, formerly with the German Army, arc assisting Abdel Krim. FRENCH SUCCESS NEAR FEZ. LONDON. July 23. The "Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent stales: ’I he Rills have suit'dcd a severe setback. The French have relieved the post at Oinmaatoii, fifty mile suorth of K"z. after a siege lasting for live weeks, during which aeroplanes supplied Hie garrison of five hundred wil It ice, and medicine, and even with ammunition, which was dropped aL the fort. Half of the garrison was killed or wounded belore the relict was effected. Major Richard, the Commander, was shot through both legs, when the defence was repelling a night attack, but he directed tin* final stages of the defence from a stretcher, encouraging his men. to tight lo the end.

French'tanks created a panic among the Riff sharpshooters, when they found that the tank armour was impervious to their bullets. Thirty other tanks have been landed at Casablanca.