THE MOROCCAN WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1925, Page 3

THE MOROCCAN WAR

I Australia it N.Z. Cable Association.] BATTLE IN MOROCCO'. LONDON. Sept. It. The Daily Mail correspondent reports that the Angela tribe, which up to the present had beet: quiet has now revolted against the Spanish and is entrenched eight miles from Tangier. The Angera rising threaten.* the Tangier and Tettiatt t-mimindent ion. Th.cise tribesmen engaged in lierec all-night encounter; with the Spanish outposts in the foi-'-l* adjoining the Tettiatt r ati. General Dc Rivera is hastily forming a living column of the foreign Legion to dislodge the rebels. The dreaded wet i-ason i- believed to la- setting in ciirlv. LONDON. Sept. 11. The “Daily Chronit IcV Ihiris correspondent says; A ltd El Krim recognised that hi* existence is at stake, and I bat bis defeat mean.- good-bye to Riff independence when ho fought his enemies singly, he forced the Spaniards to evacuate a large area. Then he inflicted a series of defeats on tin- Efotieli. Era nee and Spain have now learned military wisdom, and have combined to smash their common

enemy. A great battle is now raging It is calculated to be a derisive one It. toav be tlte end of Ab,| El Krim and of bis I? iffian army.

The "Daily Express’s” Paris forrespondent says: “ Powerful drive* which .Marshal Detain’* |oo thousand t roons are now preparing on a sixhundred mile front, are Icing preceded by a terrific cannonade, which is devastating tlie Bill' trenches and blockhouses. Aoroolanes are dropping thousands of bombs on tbc- Riff positions. fbe l''reneb aviators report that- the Biffs are fleeing in all directions. “The Ereneh advance begins at lawn to-morrow.

RIFES FOOLED. MADRID. Sept. 10. Mellial reports -tale that a new feint audiug has been effected It,■tween Kiddies and ('ape (biilntes villi the eo-np--ratioti of a French -ipimlroti. Tin>:t 11 lesltip “Paris" with Oelieral Salturn, aboard, aopmae'n-cI I'm coast ill tit h a way a- to give the impression it a certain moment, that she had iroinided. the idea being lo unmask In- Bilbao tire. This ro--- proved stte-i-ssfttl. The Paris "it bdivv. . and. viti'i Iter sister ships, began a bomlardineiit. Two Bill gnus are known o have been disnumi led.