THE MOROCCAN WAR
{Australia & N. 7,. Cable Association.] FRANCK'S LOSSES. PA HIS, October 22. According to a summary of the French losses (luring the present warlike operations, given by AI. I’ainleve before the Finauec Coininiltec of the Chamber, twelve hundred and eighty five were killed to July 111 in Morocco, including eight French officers and three liundreiT soldiers. The wounded totalled 5306, whereof 1(5(1 were French officers, 1350 soldiers. From August 7 to October 15, the period of the greatest activity, 891 were killed, whereof thirty-one were French officers and 293 soldiers. Foreign legionaries are counted among the Frenchmen. Those wounded during the same period totalled 2991. The killed in Syria totalled thirtynine during the first six months of 1925, but from then to October I, they amounted to five hundred and eightylive.
The operations cost 9.59 million francs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1925, Page 3
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139THE MOROCCAN WAR Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1925, Page 3
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