STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT TANGIER.

Shannon News, 14 July 1925, Page 4

STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT TANGIER.

(Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 11. The "Daily Express," understands the Government has dispatched an unequivocal reply to Spain's request for joint defensive operations against the Riffs, intimating that it cannot agree to send troops to Tangier. It is considered that the Riffs have no intention of invading the neutrality of this territory, and any measures such as contemplated would merely provoke them. The Note deprecates joint FrancoSpanish action with the same object and states that Britain could not countenance any proposal that the tribes of Tangier should be disarmed. It urges that the reports of smuggling are insufficiently well founded to warrant drastic action. British operations will, therefore, be confined to assisting in policing the territorial waters of Tangier.

SPAIN IN IT AGAIN. PARIS, July 12. A report from Fez states that the situation at Taza, which strong enemy concentrations are threatening, is well in haind. Every precaution is being taken for the efficient defence of the town. The assembly of native mehallas ordered by the Sultan is proceeding satisfactorily and the first mehalla of a thousand rifles will be ready to take the field for the French in a few days. ! MADRID, July 11. > Advices from Morocco state that two Spanish columns havp. bee'n ordered to concentrate in the Subbat sector on the Spanish side of the frontier in order to cover a reconnaissance in force by the French mobile column. (Received Sunday, 7.15 p.m.) PARIS, July 12. Two men have been arrested on a charge of gun-running thousands of Mausers and tons of explosives for the Riffs. An aeroplane bombed the Riffs at Amaisha and scattered a conference of staff officers. They killed several and blew off the head of the horse which Abdel Krim's brother was riding.