THE MOROCCAN WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1925, Page 2

THE MOROCCAN WAR

[Australia it X.Z. Cable Association.] FRENCH DIFFICULTIES. DRUSES CAPTURE GUNS. JERUSALEM' AUG. 7. It is reported from Amman that ot. the occasion of the capture of Susiila. the Druses captured several tanks and machine guns and that they brought down several aeroplanes. The French have evacuated southern 11 Mtiririt ■ PARIS, AUG. 7 “he -Matin” understands that Hit French has received confirmation ol the capture of Simula. SYRIAN'S SET BACK. I’ABIS, AEG. ft. The newspaper- of Franco are perturbed over the French position in Syria. The “Echo de Paris” demands thi recall of General Sarrail. It says: "Tim Drums number (iO.OOO men. and they are being supported by Arabs, while the French arc short of troops, alter having to send reinforcements to Morocco.

The Echo de Paris” adds that Captain Carbillct, the Governor of JehelDrwses, ha- exasperated the population bv id- vexation-, arbitrary methods.

“I.e Journal'’ asserts Unit foreign influences are responsible for tlie agitation in Syria, in which a Trans-Jor-danian Emir, Hikali Pasha, has played all important purl.

“I.e Journal" says: ‘‘We shall probably- be forced to give the Emir Abdulla a lesson as Severn a- that administered to his predecessor. Eeisul.”

‘‘Be Petit Journal” says “The officer whose guns and tanks were captured Inis committed suicide. A telegram from Beirut says that a French punitive column ha- been advancing on the Jebel-Dru-es, but was obliged to withdraw, owing to a sudden attack by the Druses non:: Its trn iisport. THE RIFF OFFENSIVE. PARIS, Aug. 8.

The Riffs last night attacked a French camp at Bab Tac.a. but they were easily repulsed. No details are available, hut the newspapers believe that the affair indicates a resumption of the Riff offensive. FRENCH AIMS. VANCOUVER. Aug. 8. Count Antonio Cippico, the Italian Facist Senator, speaking at the Institute of Politics, at Williamstown, Massachussettes, declared that a great dream of supremacy in Northern Africa dominates French policy. He asserted that France,' by a system of slow absorption, is attempting to suppress free Italian nationality in Tunisia. Algeria and Morocco. He charged France with failing to observe her conventions with Italy regarding Tunisia, and also said that she was trying to enforce her moral supremacy upon the world, as Germany had tried to enforce “kultur.”