MOROCCO.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8910, 2 September 1907, Page 2

MOROCCO.

floors Repulsed

Press Association.—Copyright. Morocco, September 1,

Twelve hundred Moors surprised and surrounded two companies of the French foreign legion, with two field pieces, who wero accompanied by 50 Spanish at the rear of Casablanca.

The Moors suffered heavily in successive and desperate rushes made at close quarters. Eventually after reinforcements had arrived the French dispersed the Moors.

Light French Casualties

Morocco, August 31,

In the fight near Casablanca the French had three killed and nine wounded.

Many hundreds of Arabs joined those who first commenced tiio attacks. Their mobility was such that the French seldom had a target. Tho French altogether kept on the move for 24 hours, the tribes adopting new tactics. They abstained in most instances from charging in largo massos and showed wide formation.

Extended Operations Proposed

Paris, September 1

Government has informed General Drude that ho will bo permitted to extend his field of operations anywhere within one or two days’ march of Casablanca, hut that no oxpod itou to the interior is permissible.