THE MOROCCAN WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1925, Page 1

THE MOROCCAN WAR

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] S.PAXESII 1,1 X 1 i BROKEN. TlfK LANDING DFSCIi 1 HKD. LONDON, September 10. 1 he “ Daily News's" Aladrid corrcspondeni says: A late message states that the French Army in Morocco has launched an oilen-ive alone the whole -Momeean front.

I lie latest deport troll! Moron-. Stales that the French artillery is Ida/, in.e from Otiez-'.aro to tin- hanks of tin Oucrgha river. The roads are crowded with advancin'; battalions, and tin k.v tilled with aeroplanes.

Some* phi ims nrt* Leiihiz; utilised to convey wounded to the rear. The “ Daily News’s’’ .Madrid correspondent reports the Spanish line was broken ni l.araehe, the Spanish heme; in a desperate plight at Tetuan river. They appealed In .Marsha! l’etsiiii to commence an offensive so as to relieve pressure and avert a debacle, and a later message says the French launched an offensive on their whole front. The "Daily News’s" Madrid correspondent says the strategy of the later Spanish landing at Cape (,'uilates failed to attract Abdel Kriin’s attention trout developi tie a lieree attack at let nan. It has now been revealed that Krim purposely feebly resisted the disembarkations. with a view to drawing the Spaiiisli out ot the ranee of their warships' covering tire, sixteen miles inland, where his main line of defence consists ol a solid line o! -I.li inch (tuns. The Spanish, therefore, halted before the well-nigh impregnable heights of Aclj ir. where twenty live thousand picked Hill's, well equipped with .mins and munitions, confidently awaited an on.-lnnglil. A " Daily Fxpress" special . orrespondeiit aboard a Spanish troopship o(T Alhiieemas. .says: The same boats which took the- An/.nes ashore at (* all i - poli landed the Spanish troops on the bleak Hill coast in two lories, one on either side of Alhiieemas Itay. On Adjir. Abdel Krim's capital, tons of explosives were poured all day I rom naval .nuns of every calibre. I’liis so diminished the Killian resistance that tile Spanish casualties were niiieh smaller than had been expected. Any Moors left alive on the -hell-torn hillside neither asked, nor nave, quarter. The attacker- took only I- prisoneralive.

A terrific, naval bombardment gave tile Moors no chance to remove their artillery, with the result that the Spaniards captured twenty-two la I'tro mills. Behind and all around us. was the Spanish Armada reincarnated. There were almost one hundred ships. There were mam cruisers, fussy destroyers, hie liners, lum and ex-Bri-ti-.h " K " boats. The ships -teamed towards the landing place.

General Saro, from the flagship. tlm ••Victoria Eugenia." stave the signal which sent, the whole line of “ K boats forward. The men eroiiehed in these, behind the shelter ot steel plates. It -coined as if nothing could live on the shell wracked hillside. Net. as the “beetles" chugged Dieir way towards the heaeli. they were received with a rattle of machine guns. Dale.:

planks were run out. and the men poured ashore, ami then spread ottl fanwise. The enemy re-ponded with a continuous volume of ritle lire hut tie' nil:,eker- had climbed up two hundred yards to the lifst crest by noon. The attackers were emi-trueting redoubts with -tones and sandbags a11lev moved forward. The whole Heel cheered when a Hag was rim up. on Hie ere.-t of I ape Moor. TAX'D I FB. September 9.

Following the landing at the l!a> of Cehadilla and the seizure ot tin' height- around the hay ot Alhiieemas

Spanish troops :i ro l uitl inning lh" nliv. They !iave begun In advance jn t j :t . iliriTi mu el Adjir. the hill head<|Unrters. Operations ale developing iavotirahly. the Kill's sn far resisting leeblv. M A l>l! I I). Sept ''tuber 0. Detailed accounts el lhe Spanish jnmling ai Allnicoirias liny and id the preliminary (iperlums de net mention any repulse sileh as was described in M ,me French newspapers yesterday. (1„ i lie contrary I lie ace.nillls declare I !iat everything worked with mal lieinatieal precision, under ellieielil leadeisliip. The sea was (aim. when Hwarships. including a nund.er el

11-reindiI 1- reindi vessels arrived ai noon Mc ,idav. The warships immediately homharded the moiintains in the hmlerlaml, while All Spanish aeroplanes assisted l.v French aeroplanes. I.omhed the rebel position. 'Hie enemy's reply was inell’eet ive. The wireless oil one „| Die warships was slightly damaged, hut otherwise no vessel was lot. Orders to land were issued a. U o'rloek oil .Monday evening by Ceiieral Sams. Then liis column was assembled consisting of ten tank'. Iwo battalions of the Foreign l.cgion. three battalions "i • s l'a |li ' l ' nth-men. ibree battalions ol' native troops, one held battery. two mountain batteries.

transporters ot' a ninilinii. lour rompanies ol sappers. :l >"! ,h,v '‘ " * detachments. The column was lulls assembled by dawn, without mishap. The warships' bombardment both naval and aerial was reopened at live in Die mot nine, and was edit i.tited lor Tour hours. Boat' laden with the U-.M.ps started ter tin’ shore at ten o'clock. The lauding <>i men began id noon. I lie native regtda t s la big *' l-1 ashore, advanced immediately toward the enemy positions. The enemy resisted the land.tip; hut wits caught bv the tire "i the "at ships, and wit ltd re w rapidly. _ The Spaiii-b objective was soon mi.ipiid. Dunne the course ot the operations pit bv she I llire and ;?’: ; ;;;i: bay bn, rO'C ut'd.

si'i.tan oi' - Morocco's si pfopt ’.■Received this day at S (i.r.i.l LONDON. September Ph One hu, nlred and fifty Omu-and Kram-'-Spanish are now engaged. supported bv the Sultan of Morocco's stliereetiait air si,uadron. eonsist.no ot America volunteer pilots, who bombed Sheshuan sixteen titties in two days. Two hundred and fifty Spanish were killed out of the one thousand engages a; Fund.-It.