THE MOROCCAN WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1925, Page 2

THE MOROCCAN WAR

[Australia it X.Z. Cable Association.] RIFF COAST BOMBARDED. MADRID, August 22. A communique says the airmen ami a battleship yesterday vigorously bombarded the Riflian coast opposite Alhueemas. seriously damaging the enemy artillery. The Rifliaus replied to the battleship lire. DIRECTED FROM MOSCOW. ONSLAUGHT ON BRITISH EMPIRE LONDON, August 23. The " Daily Mad,” in a leader, says: “ Various parts of the Empire are at present exposed to a formidable Communist onslaught directed Irom Moscow. The Bolsheviks are Using every kind of poisoned weapon. I hey have concentrated on a huge nationalist upheaval in China ami have stirred it into a furious anti-British boycott ami thev also aim at producing disaffection amongst the sailors and dock , workers in Australia. Canada and ISri- i tain, in pursuance of a plan specially! attacking orc-an transport from which Britain drav. s lor life blued. The plot to undermine naval discipline includes the .sending of bogus bluejackets to < harangue Hyde Park audiences on tlie I alleged wrongs of the lower deck. Re- | voliitioiiary hornets will not bleed the Empire to death, but we must recognise the existence of a malignant conspiracy. hacked by plenty of money and fertile brains and take tho requisite measures to crush it.”