CASABLANCA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 September 1907, Page 5

CASABLANCA.

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A FRENCH RECONNAISSANCE. THE MOORS SURPRISED AND SCATTERED. Morocco, September 12. General Drudo tliib morning made a rcconnaisince in the direction of Taddert, where a force of Arabs was encamped. After smart fighting, the French Tirailleurs, at the point of the bayonet, carried the high ridges comm .Hiding the camp. , The Red ICaid, who "beliaved so gallantly in the battle of August 2lst, made a desperate attack on the French light flank, but was remised. After the artillery had cleared Clio ground, the Tirailleurs and the Foreign Legion rushed the crest and surrounded j ! a enmn. which the Algerian Goumiers burned. The Arabs wore completely surprised. They fled after firing all the neighboring farms, Excepting largo quantities of fodder, the camp contained little of ralue. All the loot taken at Casnblanca had been conveyed into the interior. The losses on the. "French side were ;JI hut the Arab casualties were considerable. GEXK&ATj DRUDK'S OPERATIONS. Received Sept. 13, 8.14 p.m. Paris, September 13. General Prude's force from Casablanca, before withdrawing, marched one and a-quarter miles beyond Tcddort. M. Clemeneeau regards the operations as excellently conceived and executed.